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XML and Java
7.1 BASICS OF PARSING
7.1.1 What is Parsing?
The term parsing should not be new to the students and practitioners of information technology.
We know that there are compilers of programming languages, which translate one programming
language into an executable language (or something similar). For example, a C compiler translates a
C program (called object program) into an executable language version (called object program). These
compilers use the concept of parsing quite heavily. For example, we say that such compilers parse an
expression when they convert a mathematical expression such as a = b + c, from C language to the
corresponding ...