[ragel-users] longest matching kleene star & parse error

[Matthieu Tourne]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a simple html lexer with ragel.
I have something looking like this, to match and take an action on the
attribute 'src=' potentially found in several tag attributes :

  tag_content = (
        ('src='i  ((('\'' string_sgl_exp) | '"' string_dbl_exp)
                      >src_attr_start
                      @src_attr_end))

        | any
    )** <>lerr{  };

    tag_exp = tag_content :>> '>';

My problem is if I create an attribute <img srt="..."> (srt is not a proper
attribute, but it does generate a parse error).
What I'd like to do would be <>lerr{ fhold; fgoto tag_content; }, which
would work if tag_content was an entry point.
But I use tag_exp in several places where an entry point wouldn't work, for
instance :

img_tag := tag_exp [...] @end_img_action;
script_tag := tag_exp [...] @end_script_tag_action;

I've considered creating a ragel scanner, but I don't really care for
backtracking, I'd just like to be able to hide the error. This would work
exactly the way I want to, by doing a fgoto tag_content. It would basically
restart the parse on t='...' and have it would fall under the "any"
category.

Is there an elegant way to do this, or to just hide the error ?

Thank you,

Matthieu.
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