The main point here is: what will be the grammar for your input specification syntax? If you could post some proposal for it in a more formal notation (e.g., BNF), it would be interesting to work on this problem.

I'm working on this. Having never written a BNF form grammar, It'll take me a while to put it all together. I'm playing with Parse::RecDescent to do this. I'm having conceptual problems in coming up with a syntax that encompasses all the features I want, and trying to find ideas for features I haven't thought of. For instance, say I want to grab everything between two comments? Also say I want to expand the match to include tags that start immediately preceeding the match and close immediately following it. i.e. <b><center>...match...</center></b> I want to suck in the surrounding <center> and <b> tags.

Ideas anyone? What do you want to match?

In reply to RE: RE: A grammar for HTML matching by Anonymous Monk
in thread A grammar for HTML matching by mcelrath

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