xmlformat

xmlformat is distributed under a BSD-style license.  This license
applies to the entire xmlformat distribution, with the exception of
the REX parser (described below).

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The REX parser

xmlformat contains code based on the REX parser, which is Copyright (c) 1998,
Robert D. Cameron.  REX is described in this document:

	http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html

The document contains a Perl implementation of REX:

--- begin REX code ---
# REX/Perl 1.0 
# Robert D. Cameron "REX: XML Shallow Parsing with Regular Expressions",
# Technical Report TR 1998-17, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser 
# University, November, 1998.
# Copyright (c) 1998, Robert D. Cameron. 
# The following code may be freely used and distributed provided that
# this copyright and citation notice remains intact and that modifications
# or additions are clearly identified.

$TextSE = "[^<]+";
$UntilHyphen = "[^-]*-";
$Until2Hyphens = "$UntilHyphen(?:[^-]$UntilHyphen)*-";
$CommentCE = "$Until2Hyphens>?";
$UntilRSBs = "[^\\]]*](?:[^\\]]+])*]+";
$CDATA_CE = "$UntilRSBs(?:[^\\]>]$UntilRSBs)*>";
$S = "[ \\n\\t\\r]+";
$NameStrt = "[A-Za-z_:]|[^\\x00-\\x7F]";
$NameChar = "[A-Za-z0-9_:.-]|[^\\x00-\\x7F]";
$Name = "(?:$NameStrt)(?:$NameChar)*";
$QuoteSE = "\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'";
$DT_IdentSE = "$S$Name(?:$S(?:$Name|$QuoteSE))*";
$MarkupDeclCE = "(?:[^\\]\"'><]+|$QuoteSE)*>";
$S1 = "[\\n\\r\\t ]";
$UntilQMs = "[^?]*\\?+";
$PI_Tail = "\\?>|$S1$UntilQMs(?:[^>?]$UntilQMs)*>";
$DT_ItemSE =
"<(?:!(?:--$Until2Hyphens>|[^-]$MarkupDeclCE)|\\?$Name(?:$PI_Tail))|%$Name;|$S";
$DocTypeCE = "$DT_IdentSE(?:$S)?(?:\\[(?:$DT_ItemSE)*](?:$S)?)?>?";
$DeclCE =
"--(?:$CommentCE)?|\\[CDATA\\[(?:$CDATA_CE)?|DOCTYPE(?:$DocTypeCE)?";
$PI_CE = "$Name(?:$PI_Tail)?";
$EndTagCE = "$Name(?:$S)?>?";
$AttValSE = "\"[^<\"]*\"|'[^<']*'";
$ElemTagCE = "$Name(?:$S$Name(?:$S)?=(?:$S)?(?:$AttValSE))*(?:$S)?/?>?";
$MarkupSPE =
"<(?:!(?:$DeclCE)?|\\?(?:$PI_CE)?|/(?:$EndTagCE)?|(?:$ElemTagCE)?)";
$XML_SPE = "$TextSE|$MarkupSPE";


sub ShallowParse { 
  my($XML_document) = @_;
  return $XML_document =~ /$XML_SPE/g;
}
--- end REX code ---

The Perl and Ruby implementations of xmlformat contain parsers that
are based on the preceding code and are essentially the same, with the
exception of changes to variable and function names.


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