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Selecting the next link using XPath

I have to write an XPath expression to get the href attribute of the anchor tag in the html bellow that comes right after the one that is marked as "current-page" (in the example #notimportant/2). <dd> <a href="#notimportant/1" class="current-page">1</a> <a href="#notimportant/2">2</a> <a href="#notimportant/3">3</a> <a ...

Enable/disable grammar rules in Yacc/Bison

Like the title says, I would like to enable/disable certain grammar rules in a yacc or bison grammar file. Is there a way to do so? ...

Providing intellisense for QWhale Editor utilizing an XSD file.

Has anyone provided intellisense to the QWhale Editor with an XSD file for an XML document? The question could be generalized to what are the techniques for parsing an XSD schema to provide intellisense for an XML document. ...

convert String to DateTime

I need to parse following String into a DateTime Object: 30/Nov/2009:16:29:30 +0100 Is there an easy way to do this? ...

How do you parse a simple XML snippet in Oracle PL/SQL and load it in a global temp table?

In SQL Server it is easy to parse a vachar variable that contains a simple XML snippet constructed with attributes and load it into a temp table - see example below: declare @UpdateXML VARCHAR(8000) set @UpdateXML='<ArrayOfRecords> <Record Field01="130" Field02="1700" Field03="C" /> <Record Field01="131" Field02="1701" Field03="C" ...

Getting rails to accept European date format (dd/mm/yyyy)

Hi, I want my rails app to accept dates for a date field in the format dd/mm/yyyy. In my model I have tried to convert the date to the American standard which I think the Date.parse method that Rails will call on it is expecting: before_validation :check_due_at_format def check_due_at_format self.due_at = Date.strptime(self....

Java : parse java source code, extract methods

I wish to parse java source code files, and extract the methods source code. I would need a method like this : /** Returns a map with key = method name ; value = method source code */ Map<String,String> getMethods(File javaFile); Is there a simple way to achieve this, a library to help me build my method, etc. ? ...

Part of Speech Tagging - where to start?

Hello I would like to know how to implement the solution to such a task: There's a 500Mb file of plain English texts. I'd like to collect the statistics about the frequency of words, but additionally to be sure that each word is recognized correctly (or the majority of words). In terms that 'cry' in the sentence "she gave a loud CRY" ...

How to get odd numbers of parameters in Zend Framework?

Greetings everyone Using the request object, I can't get a sole value as in this URI: http://mydomain.com/controller/action/value1 Using $request->getParams() is not returning the value1. Output: array([controller] => 'controller', [action] => 'action') The key is missing. The issue itself is quite simple and I could parse the U...

itunes app store link checker

I am looking for a regex (or other method) that can check and parse app store links. I have an app that can take record these links but I want to check that the format is correct before I accept it. e.g. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instapaper/id288545208?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iq-test-sale/id297141027?mt=8&amp;uo=6 h...

Building an Inference Engine in Python

I am seeking direction and attempting to label this problem: I am attempting to build a simple inference engine (is there a better name?) in Python which will take a string and - 1 - create a list of tokens by simply creating a list of white space separated values 2 - categorise these tokens, using regular expressions 3 - Use a highe...

pyparsing question

This code works: from pyparsing import * zipRE = "\d{5}(?:[-\s]\d{4})?" fooRE = "^\!\s+.*" zipcode = Regex( zipRE ) foo = Regex( fooRE ) query = ( zipcode | foo ) tests = [ "80517", "C6H5OH", "90001-3234", "! sfs" ] for t in tests: try: results = query.parseString( t ) print t,"->", results except ParseEx...

Name me a Binary Parser. A parser for binary data.

So, I'm getting this data. From the network socket, or out of a file. I'm cobbling together code that will interpret the data. Read some bytes, check some flags, and some bytes indicate how much data follows. Read in that much data, rinse, repeat. This task reminds me much to parsing source code. I'm comfy with lex/yacc and antlr, bu...

How to parse ical file(.ics) with ical4j API?

Anyone have idea of parsing the ical calendar file with ical4j API for android app using eclipse as development environment. I have added ical4j API, to my project, but getting some errors related to API. ...

Incorrect format timespan

Hi I am currently tryibng to convert a given time(Entered via a text box) , The time entered would look a little like 01 52 22 mins secs mili secs. however Timespan.parse(tbName.text) gives me an incorrect format error. I have got it to work if i input something like 46 in to the textbox but then it sets the days to 46 not the second...

Parse text using regular expressions

I have a dictionary in .txt format, which looks like this: term 1 definition 1 definition 2 term 2 definition 1 definition 2 definition 3 etc. There is a tab always before a definition, basically it's like this: term 1 [tab]definition 1 [tab]definition 2 etc. Now I need to wrap every term and it's definitions w...

NSScanner parsing html into a plist

Question: Is this an appropriate way to parse HTML into a plist? I need to pull information from the following html. The HTML is in this style consistently. The first block of HTML is a section header and the second part is the sections content. The sections can have any number of contents. This is the HTML. <td class="boxcontainer"> ...

C parsing double from argument strings

I'm trying to parse an argument value in C and convert the number to a double value. I have: char *stringEnd; double num = strtod("123.0", &stringEnd); I used 123.0 just to test the function, but it always returns a value of 0.0. Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong? ...

Should I use HTML::Parser or XML::Parser to extract and replace text?

I am looking at being able to extract all plain text and analyse/amend from HTML/XHTML document and then replace if needed. Can I do this using HTML::Parser or should it be XML::Parser? Are there any good demonstrations that anyone knows of? ...

How can I parse an XML file and put it into a JavaScript array in AIR?

Hi, I am currently doing an A level computing project, in which I need to parse XML and put the elements into an array. I am using JavaScript in Dreamweaver and the final application will be run in AIR. I am having a hard time understanding the code in this answer to another question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/649614/xml-parsing...