Tokenizer

Hi folks


    Should tokenizer decide the meaning of the tokens in a given context
or the parser is responsible for it.


I have two example for that


< and > are token for me


1. Now if my tokens comes in quotes i.e in a string, should tokenizer
still give me < and > as tokens or should it returns me string token


2. Lets take an example of xml


<T> >
</T>


        The second > is to be treated as a string, should tokenizer give
me this info or the parser should tell me this.


In nutshell what is the job of a tokenizer and the parser.


regards
harvinder singh
[Ask three people, get four answers. My view is pragmatic, I divide up
the responsibility in a way that makes the least overall work. For strings
I generally have the lexer turn the string into one token. -John]

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