Article:		Non-Extractive Parsing for XML
Subject:		Wrong approach
Date:		2004-05-29 11:43:18
From:		jimmy_z
Response to: Wrong approach
Thanks for the posting. The concept of non-extractive parsing is meant to be a general-purpose alternative to extractive parsing; in other words, it is one layer below reg expression and is not tied to any specific language.

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• C regexps and XML binaries
  2004-05-29 21:28:26 Michael Maron [Reply]
  
  Just did a Google search on C regexps. Apparently, there are some packages available, for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/IEB/ToolBox/C_DOC/lxr/source/regexp/ Basically, this resoves the problem of simple regexp-based XML parsing.

  
  Now as far as binaries are concerned, it is really hard to see any reasonable justifications to bypass the regular XMK approach.

  
  First way to deal with binaries is to keep them as regular files and refer to them by hyperlinks. Seconldly, images can be kept as blobs in the SQL database and extracted by request.

  
  Best, Michael