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Re: [O] Formal description of Org files


From: Jambunathan K
Subject: Re: [O] Formal description of Org files
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:55:20 +0530
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt)

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Peter Frings wrote:
>
>> 
>> On 15 Apr 2011, at 12:57, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Am 15.04.2011 09:58, schrieb Carsten Dominik:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a question.
>>>>> 
>>>>> At FOSDEM, someone asked me if there was a formal description of
>>>>> the structure of Org files, in some language that would be the
>>>>> input for a parser (or parser generator?) so that Org file could
>>>>> be easily parsed.
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> maybe Backus-Naur was meant?
>>> 
>>> That is very well possible.  Sounds like a word I would not have 
>>> recognized....
>>> So would on Org-mode grammar start like this?
>> 
>>> headline> ::= "*"+ <opt-todo-keyword>
>>>                   <opt-priority-cookie>
>>>                   <title>
>>>                   <opt-tags>
>>> 
>>> <opt-todo-keyword> ::= <whitespace> <todo-keyword> | “”
>> <snip>
>> 
>> Yes, that seems like extended BN. [1]
>> Good luck with it! You’ll need it... :-)
>
> Well, if tis is complicated, I am not going to do this.
> But maybe there is a volunteer out there - I'd be happy to
> support him or her.

IF there is a need for a lexer and parser may be one should start with
the parser that is part of cedet.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HowToSetUpSemanticBovinatorForANewLanguage

Jambunathan K.

> - Carsten

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