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I will be building an XPath parser in Java very soon. It is part of a larger project. I need to parse an XPath expression and build the tree representation in memory. Any tips, advice, pitfalls I ...

XML is a popular data format for several reasons: it is human readable, self-describing, and portable. Unfortunately, many Java-based XML parsers are very large; for example, Sun Microsystems’ ...

Do you ever wonder how the Java compiler works? Do you need to write parsers for markup documents that do not subscribe to standard formats such as HTML or XML? Or do you want to implement your own ...

I'm writing a parser in Java, and I'm finding that it recurses too deeply on some input files (I've only tested a 100mb file, but still). Since it's a parser, it's generated automatically, by JavaCC ...