RE: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF

2009-06-30 Thread Marcin Hanclik
Hanclik Cc: public-webapps Subject: Re: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF Marcin Hanclik: > I had the following problem: > > [45]ScopedName -> "::" ScopedNameAfterColon > | identifier ScopedNameParts > Where I assumed that each ScopedName has to start with "::&qu

RE: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF

2009-06-30 Thread Marcin Hanclik
163-8290-646 E-Mail: marcin.hanc...@access-company.com -Original Message- From: Cameron McCormack [mailto:c...@mcc.id.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 7:39 AM To: Marcin Hanclik; public-webapps Subject: Re: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF Marcin Hanclik: > > I had the following pr

Re: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF

2009-06-30 Thread Cameron McCormack
Marcin Hanclik: > > I had the following problem: > > > > [45]ScopedName -> "::" ScopedNameAfterColon > > | identifier ScopedNameParts > > Where I assumed that each ScopedName has to start with "::", because > > according to ABNF this production has to be written as > > [45ABNF]S

Re: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF

2009-06-30 Thread Cameron McCormack
Marcin Hanclik: > I had the following problem: > > [45]ScopedName -> "::" ScopedNameAfterColon > | identifier ScopedNameParts > Where I assumed that each ScopedName has to start with "::", because > according to ABNF this production has to be written as > [45ABNF]ScopedName

RE: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF

2009-06-30 Thread Marcin Hanclik
-6452 | Fax: +49-208-8290-6465 Mobile: +49-163-8290-646 E-Mail: marcin.hanc...@access-company.com -Original Message- From: Cameron McCormack [mailto:c...@mcc.id.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:18 AM To: Marcin Hanclik Cc: public-webapps Subject: Re: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF Hi Marc

Re: [WebIDL] grammar in ABNF

2009-06-30 Thread Cameron McCormack
Hi Marcin. Marcin Hanclik: > Could we have the Web IDL grammar in ABNF? > I think ABNF is quite well adopted on the market. I think using ABNF would make the grammar harder to read, since ABNF quoted terminals are case insensitive, and must be written out as %xHH characters to get case insensitiv

[WebIDL] grammar in ABNF

2009-06-30 Thread Marcin Hanclik
Hi Cameron, Could we have the Web IDL grammar in ABNF? I think ABNF is quite well adopted on the market. Otherwise, I think we could have more formal description of the grammar used in the current Web IDL spec, since it is easy now to misunderstand it having the ABNF syntax used in other specs.