Re: [Htmlparser-developer] AI - to be or not to be

[Somik R. <so...@ya...>]

Sam Joseph wrote:
> I would have thought the solution to this would be to define under which
> circumstances a pair of apostrophes will indicate text.  In the first
> two examples you are inside an ANCHOR tag, and in the third you are
> inside a SCRIPT tag.  It seems to me that you should only be using
> apostrophe's to indicate text strings inside a SCRIPT tag, no?  If
> that's true then set your parsing behaviour differently depending on the
> tag type.

You are right. The script scanner could set some static variable in the
HTMLStringNode - which tells it to move into the ignore states if it
encounters an apostrophe, and flag it off when its done. I'll probably do
that for now..

Regards,
Somik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Joseph" <ga...@yh...>
To: <htm...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Htmlparser-developer] AI - to be or not to be


> Hi Somik,
>
> I would have thought the solution to this would be to define under which
> circumstances a pair of apostrophes will indicate text.  In the first
> two examples you are inside an ANCHOR tag, and in the third you are
> inside a SCRIPT tag.  It seems to me that you should only be using
> apostrophe's to indicate text strings inside a SCRIPT tag, no?  If
> that's true then set your parsing behaviour differently depending on the
> tag type.
>
> CHEERS> SAM
>
> Somik Raha wrote:
>
> >Hi Folks,
> >    Derrick Oswald just checked in a test case that fails..
> >Here's a link tag :
> >
> ><a href="http://cbc.ca/artsCanada/stories/greatnorth271202"
> >class="lgblacku">Vancouver schools plan 'Great Northern Way'</a>
> >
> >We are in a quandary now. When we have cases like :
> >
> ><a href="something.html">Kaarle's Page</a>
> >
> >we should accept the apostrophe without doing anything special.
> >
> >When we get links like,
> ><script>
> >    var code = '<sometag>';
> ></script>
> >
> >We should not take the tag symbols after code seriously, as they are part
of
> >the string.
> >
> >Handling the last two cases causes a conflict with the first case -bcos
the
> >last case is handled by checking if there's a < after ' - and this causes
> >the first case to go into an ignoring mode.
> >
> >How do we handle this problem ? Do we write smart code to handle this
> >particular situation ? From human experience, even if we've not
encountered
> >these cases, we know how to differentiate between a string node and a
tag.
> >Can AI help us here ? Also, pls feel free to suggest any straightforward
> >solutions as well.
> >
> >Regards
> >Somik
> >
> >
> >
> >
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