Computer Science text book way to do text/xml/whatever parsing

Question

It's been ratling in my brain for a while.

I've had some investigation on Compilers/Flex/Byson and stuff but I never found a good reference that talked in detail about the "parsing stack", or how to go about implementing one.

Does anyone know of good references where I could catch up?

Edit: I do appreciate all the compiler references, and I'm going to get some of the books listed, but my main focus was on the Parsing itself and not what you do with it after.

Answer 1

The Dragon book! I used it quite recently to write a compiler (in PHP!) for a processing language for template files written in RTF...