Thomas Beale wrote: > > Dear all, > > As part of the ADL 2.0 revision of syntax for archetypes, it occurred to > me that we could change / improve how we quote things, mainly in the > dADL parts (i.e. ontology and description). Currently the specification > says that quoting is done as follows: > > * < and > have to be quoted using \ > * " in a string is quoted with \ > * long lines in a string are extended using \ > * special characters inside strings are written in the XML style > e.g. &ohmgr; > > The first 3 are more or less the old style unix way of doing it. To be > more compatible with things today, including XML, I wonder if better > quoting rules would be: > > * < and > quoted in any data using < and > > * " in a string quoted with ...how is this done in XML? > * multiline strings would not require anything, and would be parsed > in the following way: > o keep the newline at the end of each line > o throw away any leading whitespace up until the character at > the indent point of the first quote character (i.e. the lead > '"') in the string. This means that internal whitespace is > preserved, but that the overall indent of the block is not > considered part of the string. > * special characters would continue to be quoted in the XML style > > thoughts on this proposal? > > - thomas beale > > -- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > CTO Ocean Informatics (http://www.OceanInformatics.biz) > Research Fellow, University College London (http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk) > Chair Architectural Review Board, openEHR (http://www.openEHR.org) > > - To unsubscribe from this list send a message to > majordomo at chime.ucl.ac.uk with "unsubscribe openehr-technical" in the > message body (without the quotes). If you have any questions about using > this list, please send a message to owner-openehr-technical at chime.ucl.ac.uk
This change seems to simply the BNF syntax used to generate ADL parsers. How you tried this already in your Eiffel parser? Rong
