On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Peter Frings wrote: > > 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... :-)
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