Re: proposal: xml status output

[Christian Hopp]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> Christian Hopp <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Do you have a tight xml lib in mind or should we parse it
> > ourselves... shan't be a big deal.
>
> I simply suggest that we parse it ourself. Either by hand or
> preferably by using bison and a lexer[1], unless we can find a small
> GPL'ed *reentrant* xml parser (libxml is probably out of the question,
> it's to big.)
>
> Would you like to give it a stab Christian? If not, I can do it after
> I'm done with the 1. version of m/monit (in X weeks).

I can try... but I am absolutely no XML expert.

> [1] NOTE: The parser/lexer will need to be *reentrant* [2] and flex is
> not reentrant last time I checked, bison can be made to be reentrant.
> One option is to hand-code the lexer but use bison as the parser.
>
> [2] Well since we only use one httpd thread in monit, strictly
> speaking, the parser and lexer does not need to be reentrant (meaning
> that flex could be used), but it is nice to do it properly :)

What about building a parser using REs or perl REs?  REs are anyways
already in.

CHopp

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