NAME ^

examples/assembly/xml_parser.pasm - Simple XML Parser

SYNOPSIS ^

    % ./parrot examples/assembly/xml_parser.pasm examples/assembly/small.xml

Note that this example currently seems to be broken:

    Couldn't open small.xml

DESCRIPTION ^

This is a rudimentary XML-ish parser in PASM. It currently handles only well-formed XML, doesn't throw errors, etc...

Limitations:

This is more of a proof-of-concept than anything else. Try putting this in a file:

    <xml version='1.0'>
    <top>
    <inner foo='bar' narf='poit'>
    <junk>Hello</junk>
    <empty/>
    </inner>
    </top>

And see what it does. :)

See the notes near the read() for IO problem notes.

Register Usage:

    S0, S1, S2, S5 -- Temporary Registers
    S7             -- Current token in procintags()
    S10            -- HACK for broken I/O
    S11            -- Character being processed
    I0, I1, I2     -- Temporary Registers
    I7             -- Type of current element
    I8             -- "In Quotes" flag
    I13            -- Type of the last token

The stack is used all to hell. :)

Data is stored on the stack in type/value pairs:

      -1 ""  (uninitialized slot)
       0 Element Name
       1 Attribute Name
       2 Attribute Value
       5 Close of Element (no data)
       6 Close of Element, also start (no data)
      99 Data associated with this element
    1000 (no data) sentinel for the bottom of the stack

SEE ALSO ^

examples/assembly/small.xml.

HISTORY ^

    (First Parrot Assembler Program)
    Clinton A. Pierce  3/13/2002
    clintp@geeksalad.org
    Freely Redistributable


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