From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-02-27T18:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How to parse attributes in ruby?

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:03 AM, dare ruby <martin@angleritech.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
>   I'am in process of creating a new parser class. My parser was showing
>  parsing errors in case of input like,
>
>     <product prod_name="jean" size=" 24" boot-cut" price="$99">
>
>  i have got parsing error in attributes values " 24" boot-cut". I was
>  reading attributes values from " to ". But in above case double
>  quotes(") comes three times so my parser was not able to read it
>  properly.
>
>  How to solve the above problem?

I'd suggest you require that "s within strings be escaped somehow.
Otherwise, the input is ambiguous - it might as well be 'size = "24"'
followed by an unterminated '"boot cut'

martin