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Re: Using syntax tables to parse buffer content
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: Using syntax tables to parse buffer content |
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Tue, 18 May 2021 15:53:36 -0700 |
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Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> * Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> [2021-05-19 00:04]:
>> My main problem now is escaping: I don't know how to treat escaped
>> special characters as non-special. The simplest example is in vCard
>> parsing. A property line might look like this:
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>> URL;TYPE=homepage:https\://mygreatpage.com/
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> That is when important "standards" like vCard are written by people
> that lack global knowledge of data structures. Would they write it in
> LISP data or at least XML, we could all easily parse it, including by
> using other programming languages. But no...
There have been further efforts based on XML and JSON, but nothing has
quite gained the currency of vCard, so here we are...