Re: [xsl] library for parsing RTF

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> there is no library and it is not required:
> since RTF is a textual format, you can use XSLT 2.0 regexp 
> capabilities to parse RTF

For a language as rich as RTF, regular expressions are not going to get 
you all that far: they are probably only suitable for writing the 
lexical analyzer (or tokenizer).

Dimitre Novatchev seems to be the expert on writing parsers in XSLT. 
Perhaps his next project could be a parser-generator (aka 
compiler-compiler) - a program that takes a BNF description of the 
grammar you want to parse, and generates an XSLT stylesheet/library to 
do the parsing.

Michael Kay
Saxonica