Performance of tokenizing CSS in PHP
- by Boldewyn
This is a noob question from someone who hasn't written a parser/lexer ever before.
I'm writing a tokenizer/parser for CSS in PHP (please don't repeat with 'OMG, why in PHP?'). The syntax is written down by the W3C neatly here (CSS2.1) and here (CSS3, draft).
It's a list of 21 possible tokens, that all (but two) cannot be represented as static…