Documention for: parse-analysis-view.r
Created by: brett
on: 18-Dec-2004
Last updated by: brett on: 6-Mar-2013
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Parse Analysis Toolset /View

1. What is this for?

Uses REBOL/View to visualise the results of Parse. Currently provides a View representation on the results from the Tokenise-parse (see parse-analysis.r script and documentation).

2. Why is it useful?

3. What is in the script?

4. How do you use it?

        if not value? 'script-manager [
            script-manager: func ['word /local needs][
                if any [
                    :word <> 'do-needs
                    none? in system/script/header 'needs
                    none? needs: system/script/header/needs
                ][return]
                if not parse needs: compose [(:needs)] [some file!][make error! {Expected a NEEDS block consisting of file!.}]
                foreach [file] needs [do file]
            ]
        ]

4.1 Example

Here we specify the parse rules and the text.

    mygrammar: context [
        alpha: charset [#"A" - #"Z" #"a" - #"z"]
        digit: charset {0123456789}
        word: [some alpha]
        number: [some digit]
        main: [
            some [word | number | skip]
        ]
    ]
    text: {Word 123 +=+ 45 End}
    visualise-parse/ignore text mygrammar [parse/all text mygrammar/main] [alpha digit]

Another example. In this example we are going leverage the built-inxml rules of REBOL. That is why the BIND is used below.

    ; An old xml example
    xml: {<movie>
        <title>Star Trek: Insurrection</title>
        <star>Patrick Stewart</star>
        <star>Brent Spiner</star>
        <theater>
            <theater-name>MonoPlex 2000</theater-name>
            <showtime>14:15</showtime>
            <showtime>16:30</showtime>
            <showtime>18:45</showtime>
            <showtime>21:00</showtime>
            <price adult="8.50" child="5.00" />
        </theater>
        <theater price="6.00">
            <theater-name>Bigscreen 1</theater-name>
            <showtime>19:30</showtime>
        </theater>
    </movie>}

    rules: bind [
        element name content attribute attr-value
    ] xml-language

    visualise-parse xml rules [parse-xml xml]

4.2 What should I do with these examples?

4.2.1 Thinking about what you are seeing

5. About the script author

Brett Handley started programming REBOL early 2000 and maintains a site of REBOL information and scripts at:

http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/