strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-17 Thread McKown, John
Does anybody have or know of an EBNF description of JCL that I could feed into Flex or Bison? I'm not really too sure that JCL can be described with EBNF. But I'm not very familiar with EBNF. Compiler theory was long ago! And I got a C-. I'm kind of curious to see if it would be possible to use su

Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-17 Thread Tim Hare
1. Do you mean ABNF? 2. How about an XSLT to take JCL and transform it into XML; you can then go from XML to just about anything else. 3. Maye there should be an XML schema / DTD for JCL which _also_ includes scheduling information; I for one would love to see scheduler info in a standard da

Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-17 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hare > Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:43 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL? > > > 1. Do you mean ABNF? I

Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-17 Thread Lindy Mayfield
mber 17, 2006 10:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL? Does anybody have or know of an EBNF description of JCL that I could feed into Flex or Bison? I'm not really too sure that JCL can be described with EBNF. But I'm not very familiar with EBNF. Com

Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
- Does anybody have or know of an EBNF description of JCL that I could feed into Flex or Bison? I'm not really too sure that JCL can be described with EBNF. But I'm not very familiar with EBNF. Compiler theory was long ago! And I got a C-.

VS: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-17 Thread Lindy Mayfield
pe 17.11.2006 22:11 Vastaanottaja: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Aihe: Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL? I don't think you'll need EBNF to describe JCL; as languages go, it's fairly primitive. Standard BNF forms should handle it just fine. (I've never worked with

Re: strange request: EBNF desc of JCL?

2006-11-22 Thread Stefan Finka
Hi, CBT tape file 647 from Andrew Armstrong includes a JCL to XML converter in rexx, which I've tried successfully. It could be a useful starting point. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai