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Re: Tags for BNF/EBNF
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Tags for BNF/EBNF
- From: "Eve L. Maler" <Eve dot Maler at east dot sun dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:10:52 -0500
- Cc: DocBook Mailing List <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
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I'm on the hook to suggest a design for EBNF markup, based at least partly
on the XMLspec DTD (which already has this, but the design is a little
funky). I'll try to post something in this space by Monday.
Eve
At 01:47 PM 3/17/00 -0500, Dave Makower wrote:
>I'm using DocBook to create a document explaining to our developers
>our conventions for constructing CVS tags. Because they're an
>audience of developers, I believe they'll understand a BNF
>description. Unless I've missed something, there don't seem to be
>DocBook XML tags directed specifically at representing BNF grammars.
>What's the best way to do something like this in DocBook? Should I
>just give up on conveying such granular structure in the XML and
>use something like <literallayout> with some <replaceable>s thrown
>in?
Eve Maler +1 781 442 3190
Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center elm @ east.sun.com