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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
Subject: Re: Formal description of Org files
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:55:20 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <81k4ev5yfz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88D992AF-EA32-4B53-878C-FC27A56DE9D9@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:05:55 +0200")

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> 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

-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-15 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-15  7:58 Formal description of Org files Carsten Dominik
2011-04-15  8:54 ` Rainer Stengele
2011-04-15 10:57   ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-15 11:50     ` Peter Frings
2011-04-15 12:05       ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-15 15:25         ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2011-04-20 11:57           ` Olaf.Hamann
2011-04-15 12:58 ` Christian Egli
2011-04-15 13:42   ` Peter Frings
2011-04-15 13:52     ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-04-15 14:20 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-04-15 17:29   ` Eric Schulte
2011-04-15 18:31     ` Nick Dokos
2011-04-20 12:37       ` Olivier Schwander
2011-07-15 18:07         ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-07-16 16:56           ` Bastien
2011-07-16 17:09             ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-16 17:12               ` Bastien
2011-07-16 18:00               ` Searching the org list (was: Formal description of Org files) Memnon Anon
2011-07-16 18:21               ` Formal description of Org files suvayu ali
2011-07-16 18:43                 ` Nick Dokos
2011-07-17 23:14             ` Eric Schulte
2011-07-18  9:30               ` Christopher Witte
2011-07-18 23:32               ` Bastien
2011-07-18 21:02             ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-07-18 21:03               ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-07-18 11:04           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-07-18 23:35             ` Bastien
2011-07-19  6:16             ` Jambunathan K
2011-07-24 18:58               ` Bastien
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-15 17:13 Rustom Mody
2011-04-15 17:27 ` MidLifeXis at PerlMonks
2014-09-21 12:10 Gustav Wikström
2014-09-21 12:43 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-02  8:28   ` Samuel Loury
2014-10-02 17:03     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-10-04 19:49   ` Gustav Wikström
2014-09-26  8:12 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-09-26 12:53   ` Grant Rettke
2014-09-26 20:51     ` Eric S Fraga
2014-10-04 19:41   ` Gustav Wikström
2014-10-06 14:22     ` Samuel Loury

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