[Biojava-l] Possible Submission

[Keith James]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Hubley <rhubley@systemsbiology.org> writes:

    Robert> I have developed a parsing framework called LSAX that I
    Robert> would like to submit to BioJava.  It was inspired by the
    Robert> work of Cambridge Antibody Technology (Simon Brocklehurst
    Robert> et al.) on the BioJava BlastLikeSaxParser.  The idea is
    Robert> the same -- create a bridge between XML applications and
    Robert> Non-XML data.  The difference between the CAT parser and
    Robert> LSAX is in the design of the raw file parser.  I use LEX
    Robert> (actually JFLEX) to tokenize the raw data files and
    Robert> generate Start, Data, and End SAX events.

This would be great. I've been looking jealously at JFlex and wishing
I could use it "out of the box" to plug into SAX for BioJava. The
nirvana of not writing parsers beckons...

Keith

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