Using Backus-Naur Format?

[clintonG]

Do you have any references to documentation for Backus-Naur Format or
Extended Backus-Naur Format?
This syntax is common and used practically everywhere but damn if I can find
the 'official' documentation or decent document(s) to learn more of the
syntax than I know how to use at this time.

<%= Clinton Gallagher

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

clintonG <cs*********@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com> wrote:

Do you have any references to documentation for Backus-Naur Format or
Extended Backus-Naur Format?
This syntax is common and used practically everywhere but damn if I can find
the 'official' documentation or decent document(s) to learn more of the
syntax than I know how to use at this time.

A couple of links:
http://cui.unige.ch/db-research/Ense.../AboutBNF.html
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/bnf.html

Links from those may have more detail.

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[stork]

Maybe i'm just being ornery and in need of sleep. But, it struck me
that the second article leaves a bit to be desired?

Maybe I'm completely wrong but the guy doesn't make the point that BNF
or EBNF it is possible to make a language that is not parsable by a
strictly LALR compiler (avoids reduce reduce conflicts). So the
article goes into a really high level view of kinds of languages, but
doesn't really explain the relationship between that and [E]BNF. He's
just "golly, write your BNF and give it to yacc".

[clintonG]

Good. Thanks Jon.
The second link was a tad more expressive than the first. I'm not into
YACC(ing) ;-) but simply wanted to learn more of the syntax for various
reasons. Writing a DTD some time ago was a real challenge as is reading W3C
specifications without broader understanding of BNF.

<%= Clinton Gallagher
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clintonG <cs*********@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com> wrote:

Do you have any references to documentation for Backus-Naur Format or
Extended Backus-Naur Format?
This syntax is common and used practically everywhere but damn if I can
find
the 'official' documentation or decent document(s) to learn more of the
syntax than I know how to use at this time.

A couple of links:
http://cui.unige.ch/db-research/Ense.../AboutBNF.html
http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/bnf.html

Links from those may have more detail.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
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[clintonG]

YACC(ity) YACC. Don't talk back ;-)

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Maybe i'm just being ornery and in need of sleep. But, it struck me
that the second article leaves a bit to be desired?

Maybe I'm completely wrong but the guy doesn't make the point that BNF
or EBNF it is possible to make a language that is not parsable by a
strictly LALR compiler (avoids reduce reduce conflicts). So the
article goes into a really high level view of kinds of languages, but
doesn't really explain the relationship between that and [E]BNF. He's
just "golly, write your BNF and give it to yacc".