I am working on a project to create a DOM parser. At the initial stage I am simply trying to figure out how many tags are there in the given file. Let's say I have an XML file whose content is somewhat like this : <abc>
this is test file</abc>
, for this I only want to parse the two tags <abc>
and </abc>
. For this happen I am using Flex and Bison to write a grammar so that whenever this grammar occurs I execute my code. This is my Bison code :
%{
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
int yylex();
int yyparse();
FILE *yyin;
int yylineno;
void yyerror(const char*);
%}
%token START_TAG END_TAG
%%
tag:
sTag
| eTag
;
sTag:
START_TAG {printf("start tag encountered");}
;
eTag:
END_TAG
;
%%
int main(){
FILE *myFile;
myFile = fopen("G:\\MCA-2\\project\\09-03-2013\\demo.txt","r");
if(!myFile){
printf("error opening file");
}
yyin = myFile;
do{
yyparse();
} while(!feof(yyin));
fclose(myFile);
return 0;
}
And this is my Flex code :
%{
#include "xml.tab.h"
#define YY_DECL extern "C" int yylex()
%}
%option noyywrap
%option yylineno
alpha [a-zA-Z]
digit [0-9]
%%
[ \t] {}
[ \n] {}
{alpha}({alpha}|{digit})* return START_TAG;
%%
When I am trying to compile this I am getting an error like this :
lex.yy.c : 529:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before string constant.
Can anyone tell me what is the mistake I am making?