Re: [Boost-users] spirit and xml

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-12 11:40:37

Note that your task requirements are similar to those required by xml 
serialization where spirit parser was used with good results and good 
progammer experience.  The relevent file is boost/archive/xml_grammar.*

Robert Ramey

abir basak wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am at present using spirit for parsing unipen file as specified in
> http://www.unipen.org/dataformats.html . That is great and quite easy
> to parse, thanks to spirit.
>  Now I am looking to use spirit for parsing an specific xml file ( w3c
> inkml file). So my intension is not to have a generic xml parser,
> rather than a specific xml parser (which also have some BNF grammar)
> . Anyone had used spirit for domain specific xml parsing?
>  I believe using spirit will make it faster. Also I am interested to
> parse only a portion of the whole document at a time, and generate
>  data from that portion only, rather generating data for whole DOM
> (The
> files are large, 4-20 MB typically)
> my xml file is something like,
> <page>
>    <trace ref = "1">
>      0,1,2,3,4,3,4,3,5,4,3,4
>    </trace>
>    ...
> </page>
> note that inside <trace> the grammar is a BNF (comma sep float pairs
> mostly)
>  Any comments, or snippets to show how to do it?