Could anyone offer any advice on how I might be able to build a parser? I'm working with Dazel Output server and I need to parse the printer attribute lists for template (example below). My problem is this, I'm upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 and I need to find out where the templates differ between the versions, so I have to parse the same template for both version and compare them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! This is what the attributes in a template would look like... 
 
-input-trays-supported         : top,
                                 middle,
                                 bottom,
                                 large-capacity,
                                 tray1,
                                 tray2,
                                 tray3,
                                 tray4
-descriptor                    : hp5si PS TCP Template
-printer-name                  : hp5si_ps_tcp_template
-printer-model                 : pjl
-printer-realization           : 1
-medium-default                : north-american-letter-white
-output-bin-names-supported    : top,
                                 face-down,
                                 face-up
-start-sheet-default           : none
-separator-sheet-default       : none
-character-sets-supported      : iso-latin-1,
                                 ascii
-character-set-default         : iso-latin-1

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In reply to Need to build attribute parser by Lord Rau

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