Re: tool(s) to check EBNF syntax

To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Subject: Re: tool(s) to check EBNF syntax
From: ned.freed@mrochek.com
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:53:04 -0800 (PST)
Cc: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>, "Iesg (E-mail)" <iesg@ietf.org>
In-reply-to: "Your message dated Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:21:50 +0100"<906020000.1045750910@askvoll.hjemme.alvestrand.no>
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EBNF is ill-defined, there being some incompatible variants.... I think

bison (and yacc) parses some superset of some variant of EBNF.

I can give you an ABNF syntax checker, though....

FWIW, there's an ABNF checker on the apps area Web server:

http://www.apps.ietf.org/abnf.html

				Ned

References:
- tool(s) to check EBNF syntax
  - From: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>
- Re: tool(s) to check EBNF syntax
  - From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>