Martin Sebor wrote:
>
> But we do need to come up with a sound specification of the query syntax
> before implementing any more code.
>
Okay, the proposed query syntax grammar essentially the same as that being
used for the <config> value in xfail.txt. So we have
<match> is a shell globbing pattern in the format below. All fields
are required.
iso-country ::= ISO-639-1 or ISO-639-2 two or three character country
code
iso-language ::= ISO-3166 two character language code
iana-codeset ::= IANA codeset name with '-' replaced or removed
match ::=
<iso-language-expr>-<iso-country-expr>-<iana-codeset-expr>-<mb_cur_len-expr>
match_list ::= match | match ' ' match_list
So the previous example to select `en_US.*' with a 1 byte encoding or
`zh_*.UTF-8' with a 2, 3, or 4 byte encoding would use the following query
string.
en-US-*-1 zh-*-UTF8-2 zh-*-UTF8-3 zh-*-UTF8-4
This long expression could be written using a brace expansion to simplify
it.
en-US-*-1 zh-*-UTF8-{2,3,4}
I propose that we not support the BRE syntax, simply because it is so
complex. Yes, it might be quite easy to prototype a solution using grep and
other shell utilities, but providing a complete implementatoin in C [where
we actually need it] is going to be difficult at best. For what we need,
shell globbing should be sufficient to handle the cases that we need to
satisfy the objective.
I suppose you could consider en-US-*-1 is "language=en" and "country=US" and
"codeset=*" and "mb_cur_len=1" so '-' represents an intersection operation,
but I prefer to think of the entire expression to be either a match or not a
match.
Martin Sebor wrote:
>
> I think it's great
> to put together a prototype at the same time, just as long as it's
> understood that the prototype might need to change as we discover
> flaws in it or better ways of doing it.
>
I have no problem with flaws or small improvements. When we start talking
about implementing a regular expression parser I get concerned.
Travis
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