Chapter 1. General use

This is just an overview, consult the JavaDoc for more details.

 1 |String input = "date: s?, day, -s, month, (-s, year)? .\n" +
   |        "-s: -\" \"+ .\n" +
   |        "day: digit, digit? .\n" +
   |        "-digit: \"0\"; \"1\"; \"2\"; \"3\"; \"4\"; \"5\"; \"6\"; \"7\"; \"8\"; \"9\".\n" +
 5 |        "month: \"January\"; \"February\"; \"March\"; \"April\";\n" +
   |        "       \"May\"; \"June\"; \"July\"; \"August\";\n" +
   |        "       \"September\"; \"October\"; \"November\"; \"December\".\n" +
   |        "year: ((digit, digit); -\"'\")?, digit, digit .";
   | 
10 |InvisibleXmlParser parser                             ①
   |    = new InvisibleXml().getParserFromIxml(input);
   | 
   |InvisibleXmlDocument doc                              ②
   |     = parser.parse("27 Feb 2022");
15 | 
   |String result = doc.getTree();                        ③

①

Create a parser. In early versions of this API, the InvisibleXml class had static methods. In version 0.6.0, that was changed. It must now be instantiated and the ParserOptions to use can be specified.

②

Parse some input.

In the case of a failed parse, the InvisibleXmlDocument will also provide details about the failure.

③

Get the XML.

Several tree models can be constructed and the parse tree can be sent to any SAX document builder.