On 8 Apr 2009, at 23:11, Édouard Gilbert wrote:
[...] Actually, ‘a’ opens a scope A, ‘b’ both closes A and opens another scope B, which is then closed by ’c’. Note that while I’m interested in scopes, I’m even more interested in grammars development.
An actual example could help: <a # opens a scope for autocompletion of attributes of tag a
# closes the attributes scope and open a scope for autocompletion
of every possible child of a
</a> # closes everything.
Writing directly
</a> is of course meaningless.
A third scope, which opens with <a and closes with </a> might also be useful.
There are several ways to tackle this, but no ideal way, i.e. they all have pros/cons.
I’d probably approach it something like this:
begin = "(?=<(\w+))" # general tag begin = "<a\b" # it was an <a …> tag end = ">" # we leave when seeing > include = #attr_rules
begin = "(?!</)(?<=>)" # we just left previous rule and is inside the actual tag content end = "(?=</)" # we leave when we see an end tag include = $self
end = "</$1>" # leave the general tag
This is probably where you got a infinite loop, I made a negative look- ahead assertion on the second inner rule, as it would otherwise fail on data like: <a></b>.
I didn’t test this, and as said, this is just one approach to a problem that does not have an obvious solution, Michael Sheets probably can tell you a lot more about the pros/cons of the various approaches.