Comments on: TagSoup, meet Parsec!

By: Pepe Iborra

Pepe Iborra — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:48:09 +0000

Is Parsec lazy? If so, this has potential to be light years better than what the TagTree beta module provides. A teaser:

childrenP = do
  open@(TagOpen name _) <- tagOpen
  content <- many (many1 tagText <|> childrenP)
  close <- tagCloseName name
  return (open : concat content ++ [close])

By: Dmitry Golubovsky

Dmitry Golubovsky — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:51:03 +0000

Interestingly enough, just couple days ago I came to the same combination of TagSoup and Parsec when I needed to parse XML that edoc (Erlang documentation tool) produces. The parser itself is too specialized to use such a large thing as HXT.

THe sample code is here:

http://code.haskell.org/yc2erl/Language/Edoc/Xml2Hs/Parser.hs

and the data structures it creates are defined here:

http://code.haskell.org/yc2erl/Language/Edoc/Xml2Hs/Type.hs

By: Neil Mitchell

Neil Mitchell — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:44:50 +0000

That is awsome! I will be adding a link to this blog article from the user manual and from the website, well done

By: Corey O'Connor

Corey O'Connor — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:01:01 +0000

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Brilliant! That’s a sweet little hack.