[xquery-talk] XPath parser in Java

[Frans Englich]

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:45, Jonathan Robie wrote:
> David Carlisle wrote:
> >> Rather, I want the XPath parser to return an array or a
> >> list or tree or anything where I can traverse step by step.
> >
> > There are xpath and xquery java parsers available from the working group
> > pages (maintained by Scott Boag, mainly)
> > http://www.w3.org/2005/qt-applets/xqueryApplet.html
> > This builds an in memory tree of the expression with methods to dump it
> > as indented text or as XML.
> > I use it as the parser for xq2xml
> > http://monet.nag.co.uk/xq2xml/index.html
>
> These parsers are kept up to date with the latest drafts of XPath 2.0
> and XQuery 1.0, and the text description in the specifications is
> generated from the same grammar as the parser, all the examples in the
> specifications (including the use cases) are tested with them, and they
> have had wide review. So there are real advantages to using them. Unless
> you need an XPath 1.0 parser.

Even, the testing task force uses Scott's parser to check tests for parser 
errors, so its indirectly tested through the XQuery Test Suite.


Cheers,

		Frans