Re: Formal description of Org files

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Peter Frings wrote:

> 
> 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,
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
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> <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.

- Carsten