Parsing and Lexing XML
Because XML is a well-defined language, itâs a good idea to start our XML project by reviewing the W3C XML language definition.[49] Unfortunately, the XML specification (henceforth the spec) is huge, and itâs very easy to get lost in all of the details. To make our lives easier, letâs get rid of stuff we donât need in order to parse XML files: <!DOCTYPE..> document type definitions (DTDs), <!ENTITY..> entity declarations, and <!NOTATION..> notation declarations. Besides, handling those tags wouldnât teach us anything beyond what we need to handle the other constructs.
Weâre going to start out by building the syntactic rules for XML. The good news is that we can reuse the informal grammar rules from the spec ...
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