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From: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
Subject: Re: Formal description of Org files
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:54:40 +0200
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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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.
> 
> Unfortunately I did not catch the name of the format description language that could be
> used for something, not did I catch the name of the person who talked to me.
> 
> Can anyone help out here?  Let me know what language to use, and maybe help work on such a formal description?  I think it would be useful to have....
> 
> - Carsten
> 
Hi,

maybe Backus-Naur was meant?

- Rainer