Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text?

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.php
Subject	Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text?
Date	2016-02-21 10:55 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<87h9h21gef.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> writes:

> On 20/02/2016 22:35, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> writes:
>
> ...
>
>>> Here's another attempt to make it look a bit better. This may not be
>>> any more successful....
>>>
>>> (@tagname, parameter, parameter)text(@/tagname)
>>>
>>> Maybe that's slightly easier on the eye...?
>>
>> It's not about the eye (for me) but that it's not very far from, say:
>>
>> <tagname p="parameter,parameter">text</tagname>
>>
>> and there are lots of existing tool to help write XML, validate and
>> process XML.  (I'm not sure what the parameters are, but it might even
>> be better to be able to name them: <tagname fill="left" pad="0">.
>>
>> As I've said, I'm not much of a fan, but unless the syntax is very much
>> simpler there is some value in leveraging the XML ecosystem.  (Did I
>> really say that?)
>
> Sorry, Ben, I didn't mean to ignore part of your previous post but I
> am afraid I did at least subconsciously dismiss the XML-type idea. To
> try to explain why, ISTM that: XML is too heavy for this, is hard for
> a human to edit, and is hard to read.

That's fine.  I hope you can see how giving an example syntax that looks
just as heavy but is harder to edit (my editor has a helpful XML mode)
and not obviously simpler to read lead me astray!

> I don't want to have to use
> tools (other than a text editor) to work with the marked-up text. Nor
> do I want to use pre-existing tools to parse it.

Eh?  Other than PHP, you mean?  And only some subset of PHP's functions
(i.e. PCRE ones are OK but XML ones are not)?

> In fact, I think it
> would be harder for me to restrict an existing XML parser than it
> would be to write a parser from scratch, at least for the relatively
> simple app I have in mind.

I'm not sure if that's true but there is a lot unknown at this stage.
Anyway, you will hear no more about XML from me.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 12:47 +0000
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-02-18 15:52 +0100
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 18:28 +0000
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-18 14:56 +0000
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-18 22:14 +0100
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-18 21:45 +0000
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-18 23:09 +0100
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-19 01:15 +0000
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-19 02:45 +0100
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-19 12:03 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-02-19 12:17 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-02-19 14:18 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-19 14:02 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-20 20:31 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 01:39 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 11:33 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 12:53 +0000
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 18:29 +0000
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-20 20:32 +0100
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-18 10:43 -0500
    Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 18:51 +0000
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-20 20:08 +0000
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-20 21:22 +0100
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-20 23:40 +0000
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 11:39 +0100
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 13:09 +0000
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 20:24 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-20 22:35 +0000
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 08:37 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-21 10:55 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 13:25 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-20 17:50 -0500
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 08:49 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-21 10:05 -0500
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-20 17:45 -0500
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 09:01 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 11:46 +0100
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 12:36 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 14:39 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 13:40 +0000
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-21 14:46 +0100
                Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 14:57 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-21 10:10 -0500
            Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 17:50 +0000
              Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-02-21 14:08 -0500
      Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-02-21 18:35 +0100
        Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-02-21 17:55 +0000
          Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-02-22 16:38 +0100
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-18 22:06 +0100
  Re: Any recommendations on using PHP to parse marked-up text? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-27 15:58 +1300

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