Re: DCG and stack problems

[Vic Bancroft]

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Johannes Middeke wrote:

> Is there any suitable way to process greater amounts of data? Or are there
> any modules for reading and parsing XML-data that don't use recursion?

You should try a repeat / fail loop.  Prolog programs can reclaim 
variables on backtracking.  It might be a little dirty from a logical 
perspective, but the pragmatic results will please you.  Here is an 
example from a program intended to read the users-prolog.mbox 

  http://www.ai.uga.edu/~bancroft/pub/gplfaq/faq_parse.pl

It's memory footprint grows in proportion to the asserted data.  Are you 
building a DOM style structure in memory as a result of the parse ?

Perhaps we could create an XML directory under the ExamplesPl . . . 

An alternative would be to do some wrappers for an xml library in c or
c++, like Xerces [1] or expat [2].

more,
l8r,
v

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[1] http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/