From: Peter Frings <peter.frings@agfa.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>,
emacs-orgmode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Cc: Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de>
Subject: Re: Formal description of Org files
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:50:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <71B98092-E488-4521-B545-4C3E4973D29C@agfa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B8258AAD-1B28-4B10-846C-BBAF9D9F2F1F@gmail.com>
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... :-)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus–Naur_Form
Cheers,
Peter.
--
c++; // this makes c bigger but returns the old value
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 11:50 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 [this message]
2011-04-15 12:05 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-04-15 15:25 ` Jambunathan K
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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