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Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Peter Frings wrote:
>
>>=20
>> On 15 Apr 2011, at 12:57, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Rainer Stengele wrote:
>>>=20
>>>> 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.
>>=20
>> <snip>
>>=20
>>>> Hi,
>>>>=20
>>>> maybe Backus-Naur was meant?
>>>=20
>>> That is very well possible.  Sounds like a word I would not have recogn=
ized....
>>> So would on Org-mode grammar start like this?
>>=20
>>> headline> ::=3D "*"+ <opt-todo-keyword>
>>>                   <opt-priority-cookie>
>>>                   <title>
>>>                   <opt-tags>
>>>=20
>>> <opt-todo-keyword> ::=3D <whitespace> <todo-keyword> | =A1=B0=A1=B1
>> <snip>
>>=20
>> Yes, that seems like extended BN. [1]
>> Good luck with it! You=A1=AFll 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

--=20