Re: [Aramorph-users] XML tables

[Pierrick Brihaye]

Hi,

Ahmed El-dawy wrote:

>     See : http://www.nongnu.org/aramorph/english/dictionaries.html#Stems.
>     The root "ktb" (";--- ktb" in the file) has *many* lemmas. However,
>     keeping a trace of it may help in writing a root analyzer (useful for
>     linguists ;-).
>
>  
> This means that the stems dictionary will be stored as a list of 
> dictionary entries like prefix dictionary, and all entries will have 
> attributes, or whatever, for lemma-id and root. I think it will be 
> better to be <root> tags, with <lemma> tags inside, and then <entry> 
> tags inside each <lemma> tag. This is better because there will not be 
> any redundency.

Of course... What is your proposition ?

>     Eeeer... the Java *standard* SAX parser does it, doesn't it ? A SAX
>     parser is really the thing we need here : big file, poor structure.
>  
> I saw the SAX parser and I can use it. However, Digester is much easier 
> to use. Also I have done it already using Digester. Is there a problem 
> using libraries from Jakarta Project?

No... but why an external library when the standard classes are enough ?

>     BTW, still as a quick answer : I think that the 3 compatibility
>     tables may be merged in one single file.
>  
> What is the gain of this?

Size : redundancy should give better compression results.

Cheers,

p.b.