[Gnome-devtools] Re: Parsing/Language Analysis

[Thomas Mailund <mailund mail1 stofanet dk>]

>>>>> "M" == Mark  <jamess1 wwnet com> writes:

 M> Martijn van Beers wrote:
 >>  On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 09:25:16AM -0400, Mark wrote:
 >> 
 >> > Signals: > Signals would be emitted primarily from changes in
 >> the syntax tree, such > as a new node being created, or a node
 >> being deleted, or a node being > changed.  this sounds a lot like
 >> DOM. Are you considering using that? Or maybe flux.  I think it
 >> would be a good idea to talk to the conglomerate guys
 >> (www.conglomerate.org) as they have been talking about making it
 >> do coding-language parsing.
 >> 

 M> Thanks a lot for the links, I'm fairly ignorant as far as what
 M> other people are doing in this area.

 M> I looked at DOM, just briefly though. Very interesting. I'm going
 M> to have to look at this further, to comment usefully. One question
 M> though, is there an open-source implementation of DOM?

 M> I also checked out conglomerate, another interesting
 M> project. Although they are mainly focused on XML parsing /
 M> structured document editing.Right now I see very little overlap
 M> in the projects (Harmonia and conglomerate), but if they did add
 M> general parsing that would be a different story. We should at
 M> least let them know of what we are planning.

 M> Anyway I'm a bit busy right now, expect a more thorough report
 M> after I look at DOM.

DOM is somewhat xml specific.  I'm not sure if it will work for our
purposes.

        /mailund