Parse problems.

[HumbleNoob]

I've been fed up with XML ever since I saw it. I mean it just seems so unneccesary verbose. So I thought up my own little markup language with practically the same support base. It goes like this: -tag attr value: content-, and am trying to setup a parse rule for this.

For a simple flat element structure, I found this rule worked:

Code:

  element: [thru "-" copy tag to ":" ":" copy text to "-" "-"]

It seems changing it to this should work, but it doesn't:

Code:

non-end: complement charset "-"
element: [
  "-" copy tag to ":" ":" [element | copy text [some non-end]] "-"
]

but it doesn't. Could anybody tell me why?

[Gabriele]

Hmm, it seems to work here, but notice that you are not allowing for any other content before or after an element, and you are only allowing one element.