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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Formal description of Org files
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On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Peter Frings wrote:

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> On 15 Apr 2011, at 12:57, Carsten Dominik wrote:
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>> On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
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>>> Am 15.04.2011 09:58, schrieb Carsten Dominik:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>=20
>>>> I have a question.
>>>>=20
>>>> 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.
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> <snip>
>=20
>>> Hi,
>>>=20
>>> maybe Backus-Naur was meant?
>>=20
>> That is very well possible.  Sounds like a word I would not have =
recognized....
>> So would on Org-mode grammar start like this?
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>> headline> ::=3D "*"+ <opt-todo-keyword>
>>                   <opt-priority-cookie>
>>                   <title>
>>                   <opt-tags>
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>> <opt-todo-keyword> ::=3D <whitespace> <todo-keyword> | =93=94
> <snip>
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> Yes, that seems like extended BN. [1]
> Good luck with it! You=92ll 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.

- Carsten