Videos tagged with Parser

Edward O'Connor from djangosd gives an overview of html5lib, a major-desktop-browser-compatible HTML parser and tokenizer for both Ruby and Python. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting.

A Grammar is an object similar to a Regexp. It specifies an input pattern to match and it integrates well surrounding Ruby code because it is simply an object. Instead of specifying the “pattern” using operators in a string (or file like most other parsing packages), operators and other methods to create build larger Grammar objects from smaller ones. This results in a Ruby DSL that...

Tom Werner has released the ruby gem Chronic, a natural language date and time parser. In this episode he gives us a quick run through of some of the cool points.