Re: New project: Log-parser

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > We yesterday talked about the basic-approach we'll try to follow. The sense > was that it would be stupid to write 1 class for each logtype. Our new idea > is to provide some XML-format to define how a log looks like and let it > parse after theese patterns. So everyone should be able to parse any kind of > log. We'll then give XML-sheets for the wished logs to the package and > everyone can contribute XMLs for any log-type. > > What you all think of that? While writing a class for each type of logfile would be a fair chunk of work, it would make the classes fairly maintainable. I've seen waaaay too many XML parsers with infinite hair, and I don't know whether writing an XML spec would be any easier than writing the class (especially if the base class is properly formulated). I think my old-fashioned ways are really showing. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16