Parsing
Converting source bytes into a structured representation that downstream systems can process.
What Parsing means
A parser can succeed syntactically while dropping tables, relationships, labels, or reading order.
Where Parsing comes up on this site
- XML sitemap audit: check the file and every URL in itA 200 with text/html is not automatically wrong, since some servers mislabel XML, but it is a warning that requires parsing the body.
- Text extractors dropped our schema and still got us rightSchema nodes were counted by fetching each homepage with an ordinary browser user agent, splitting at </head> , parsing every application/ld+json block and counting nodes, expanding @graph where present.
- 18 DMARC reports, 7 domains: every failure was a spooferReading them means parsing the XML, grouping by source address, and separating passes from failures.
Definitions that name Parsing
Link extraction · SSRF · Markdown negotiation
Related terms in Retrieval engineering
How pages become chunks, vectors and candidates inside an answer engine, and why being retrieved is not being cited.
Corpus · Document ingestion · Data connector · OCR · Layout-aware parsing · Semantic chunking · Fixed-size chunking · Chunk overlap · Parent-child retrieval · Metadata filtering · Vector database · Vector index · Sparse vector · Dense vector · Cosine similarity · Dot-product similarity · Approximate nearest neighbor · HNSW · Top-k · Retrieval recall · Retrieval precision · Mean reciprocal rank · Normalized discounted cumulative gain · Relevance score · Candidate generation · Query rewriting · Query expansion · HyDE · Multi-query retrieval · Reciprocal rank fusion · Late interaction · Lexical retrieval · Semantic search · Exact-match retrieval · Freshness boosting · Authority weighting · Source diversity · Deduplication · Near-duplicate detection · Semantic cache · Retrieval latency · Retrieval cutoff · Citation mapping · Answer synthesis
Questions about Parsing
What is Parsing?
Converting source bytes into a structured representation that downstream systems can process.
Which area of the glossary does Parsing belong to?
Retrieval engineering: How pages become chunks, vectors and candidates inside an answer engine, and why being retrieved is not being cited.
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