Re: Using syntax tables to parse buffer content

[Jean Louis]

* Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> [2021-05-19 00:04]:
> My main problem now is escaping: I don't know how to treat escaped
> special characters as non-special. The simplest example is in vCard
> parsing. A property line might look like this:
> 
> URL;TYPE=homepage:https\://mygreatpage.com/

That is when important "standards" like vCard are written by people
that lack global knowledge of data structures. Would they write it in
LISP data or at least XML, we could all easily parse it, including by
using other programming languages. But no...

-- 
Jean

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