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<p><strong> <a class="alink strikethrough" href="http://sourceforge.net/p/cwb/bugs/59/">[bugs:#59]</a> cwb-makeall aborts uninformatively if there are too many attributes</strong></p>
<p><strong>Status:</strong> closed-wont-fix<br />
<strong>Group:</strong> TODO-4.0<br />
<strong>Labels:</strong> CL low-level library <br />
<strong>Created:</strong> Fri Sep 13, 2013 11:15 AM UTC by Andrew Hardie<br />
<strong>Last Updated:</strong> Sun Jun 29, 2014 10:08 PM UTC<br />
<strong>Owner:</strong> Andrew Hardie</p>
<p>It is possible to create a corpus using cwb-encode that cannot be processed by cwb-makeall (or any tool that uses the CL, but cwb-makeall is the one where you notice it!) because it has too many attributes.</p>
<p>The bug is as follows: the YACC parser produces an error, with the message printed twice:</p>
<p>syntax error<br />
Parse Error</p>
<p>(plus boiler plate inserted by cregerror_cleanup())</p>
<p>This seems to arise from the "error" component in the Yacc grammar in parser.y.</p>
<p>I triggered this error with S-attributes (I was indexing <em>lots</em> of XML elements, each of which had 3 or 4 attributes). Removing most of them from the registry file made the problem go away. Thus, I infer that the problem was caused by too many attributes - I assume it could not have been a syntax error in the reg file, because that was written by cwb-encode!</p>
<p>Solution: I am not even sure one is needed because this entire area of the code will go away in v 3.9/4.0, and it is clearly not hampering most users. If there <em>is</em> an effective maximum number of attributes, perhaps that should be mentioned in the cwb-encode man file for 3.5.</p>
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