Description
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Introduction
In this homework you will implement a scanner by using ex for an XML based language which we call CSML, standing for Course Schedule Markup Language. The language is used to give the time table for courses scheduled at our university. In addition, some constraints can also be given on the schedule, such as two particular courses must not overlap (since there are students taking both of these courses).
The scanner you will implement will produce the tokens in a CSML le. CSML has an XML based syntax. We will rst brie y explain the XML based structure of CSML in general. An XML le consists of elements. For example in CSML, we have elements like course, or meeting, etc. Each element has a \start tag” and an \end tag”. For an element, the start tag has the syntax <element> and the end tag has the syntax </element>. For example, the start tags and the end tags for elements course and meeting are
<course>, </course>, <meeting>, </meeting>.
An element is everything between from start tag to end tag. For ex-ample, a course element is given in CSML as everything between the start tag <course> and the end tag </course>. Anything between <course> and </course> belongs to this course element.
In general for XML les, an element can contain other elements in it (e.g. <course> … <meeting> … </meeting> <meeting> … </meeting>
…</course>). In addition, and element can have attributes, (e.g. <course name=”Programming Languages” code=”CS305″>) and can have text. How-ever, CSML elements do not contain text. You can simply assume that there
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are only tags and attributes of tags in CSML les.
In addition to start and end tags of elements, we also have so{called self-closing tags in XML. The syntax for self{closing tags is <element/>. The self{closing tags can be used to introduce an instance of an element with no inner elements but with some attributes. As an example for this type of tag consider <meeting time=08:40/> which starts and immediately ends a meeting element (no other element is given inside this meeting element), but this meeting element has an attribute named time and the value of this attribute is 08:40.
Your scanner will catch the language constructs (introduced in Sections 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2) and print out the token and their positions (explained in Section 5) in the given CSML le. Please see Section 6 for an example of the required output.
The following sections provide extensive information on the homework. Please read the entire document carefully before starting your work on the homework.
Below is a simple CSML le, providing examples of the kind of elements (i.e. tags) existing in CSML, together with examples of attributes of these elements.
<course code=”CS305″ name=’Programming Languages’ type=”Lecture”> <class section=”0″ instructor=’Husnu Yenigun’ crn=20258>
<meeting day=R start=08:40 end=10:30/>
<meeting start=08:40 end=09:30 day=F/>
</class>
</course>
<course code=”CS301R” name=”Algorithms-Recitation” type=”Recitation”> <class section=”0″ instructor=’Husnu Yenigun’ crn=20257>
<meeting start=17:40 day=M end=18:30/> </class>
</course>
<constraint>
<item code=”CS305″/>
<item crn=20257/>
</constraint>
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Tags
Each tag consists of tag names and optionally attributes. In this section you can get the information about tag symbols and tag names. Attributes are introduced in Section 3.
2.1 Tag Symbols
There are three types of tags: start (e.g. <element>), end (e.g. </element>) and self-closing (e.g. <element/>). Starting and ending symbols identify the type of tag. Therefore the analyzer will catch the symbols explicitly. Below is the list of the symbols and corresponding token names.
Lexeme Token
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tOPEN
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tCLOSE
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</
tEND
/>
tSELF
2.2 Tag Names
In CSML, tag names are prede ned. Below is the list of tag names and token names that will be implemented.
Lexeme Token
course tCOURSE
class tCLASS
meeting tMEETING
constraint tCONSTRAINT
item tITEM
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Attributes
Attributes have three parts: keyword, assignment operator and value. In this homework each attribute consists of two tokens: keyword and value tokens. Keyword and assignment operator will be caught as one token. Please see Section 3.1, 3.2 for details.
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3.1 Attribute Keywords
Below is the list of attribute keywords that will be implemented.
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name
code
instructor
type
crn
section
capacity
start
end
day
Since there is no token for the assignment operator, this operator is as-sumed to be a part of the keyword. We will also use the convention that the token name for a keyword is formed by appending upper case keyword to t. For example, for the keywords name= and start=, we will use the token names tNAME and tSTART, respectively.
3.2 Attribute Values
In this homework there are four di erent types of attribute values: string, number, time, day. The rule for string is the following:
A string starts with quotation mark and ends with same mark.
It consists of alpha numeric words (e.g. “PL”, ‘CS 305‘, . . . ).
The token name for a string is tSTRING.
You need to implement positive integers as tNUM.
Time will be between from 00:00 to 23:59 and the corresponding token name will be tTIME.
Lexemes and token names for days are listed below:
Lexeme Token
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tMON
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tTUE
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tWED
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tTHU
FtFRI
Moreover, for all values you need to store the actual lexemes associated with the tokens. You are required to output the lexemes for the identi ers and the positions of these lexemes. For numbers you will output both the lexemes and the corresponding values along with their positions in your output (See Section 6).
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Complete List of Tokens and Lexemes
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Token
Lexeme
Token
Lexeme
tOPEN
<
tCLOSE
>
tEND
</
tSELF
/>
tCOURSE
course
tCLASS
class
tMEETING
meeting
tCONSTRAINT
constraint
tITEM
item
tNAME
name=
tCODE
code=
tINSTRUCTOR
instructor=
tTYPE
type=
tCRN
crn=
tSECTION
section=
tCAPACITY
capacity=
tSTART
start=
tEND
end=
tDAY
day=
tSTRING
anything in quotations
tMON
M
tNUM
any positive integer
tTUE
T
tWED
W
tTHU
R
tFRI
F
tTIME
Any time between 00:00 and 23:59
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Positions
You must keep track of the position information. For each token that will be reported, the position (line number) of the rst character of the lexeme of the token is considered to be the position of the token. Please see Section 6 to see how the position information is reported together with the token names.
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Input, Output, and Example Execution
Assume that your executable scanner (which is generated by passing your ex program through flex and by passing the generated lex.yy.c through the C compiler gcc) is named as CSMLscanner. Then we will test your scanner on a number of input les using the following command line:
CSMLscanner < test17.csml
As a response, your scanner should print out a separate line for each language construct it catches in the input le (test17.csml in the exam-ple above). The output format for a single is given below for each token separately:
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Token Output
string, number, time hrowihspaceihtoken nameihspacei(hlexemei)
others hrowihspaceihtoken namei
Here, hrowi gives the location of the rst character of the lexeme of the construct and htoken namei is the token name for the current item. hspacei just denotes that you will print out a space characters, and hlexemei will display the lexeme of the token. For string tokens quotation mark will be eaten up.
For example let us assume that test.csml has the following content:
<course code=”CS305″>
</course>
Then the output of your scanner must be:
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tOPEN
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tCOURSE
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tCODE
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tSTRING (CS305)
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tCLOSE
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tEND
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tCOURSE
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tCLOSE
Note that, the content of the test les need not to be a complete or grammatically correct CSML le for this homework. If the content of a test le is the following:
</ course />
(which is not well{structured CSML le but everything in it can be con-verted into valid CSM tokens) then your scanner should not complain about anything and output the following information:
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tEND
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tCOURSE
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tSELF
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However, you can assume that we will use test les that consist of lexemes of valid tokens only. For example, we will not try to fool your scanner by providing a text like “sample text’ which is against the rules explained above for forming a valid string.
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How to Submit
Submit only your ex le on SUCourse. The name of your ex le must be
id-hw1.flx
where id is your ve digit student id.
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Notes
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Important: SuCourse’s clock may be o a couple of minutes. Take this into account to decide when to submit.
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No homework will be accepted if it is not submitted using SUCourse.
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Note that, Windows ports of ex are available, either native or based on cygwin. Although it is discouraged, you may use Windows version on your PC. However, we want to remind you that, your homework will be evaluated on the machine, flow.sabanciuniv.edu. Hence we recommend that you, at least, test your implementation on ow before submitting.
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You may get help from our TA or from your friends. However, you must write your ex le by yourself.
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Start working on the homework immediately.
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