Re: parsing vrml

[Martin Grabmueller]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:19:16 +0100
> 
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:10:01AM +0100, Martin Grabmueller wrote:
> > 
> > Isn't VRML an XML dialect?  Then you might want to use an XML parser
> > for the parsing and then traverse the resulting tree by hand.
> 
> Not when i last looked at it ;-) 
> It's pre-xml-hype and looks a bit like this:
> 
>  Sphere { 
>         field SFFloat radius  1    
>  } 
>  ...
> 
> but there's also a draft for a succesor of VRML called 'Extensible 3D (X3D)'
> and that uses as one possible data encoding XML.  

Sorry for the noise, then.  Maybe I should have guessed, since there's
no `X' in `VRML'...  Somehow I guessed all `languages' recently hyped
must be SGML-like..

'martin