- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:31:29 +0200
- To: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Lisa Dusseault wrote: > If you use character ranges, then people can use Jutta's tool > (http://www.quut.com/abnfgen/) to generate legal strings to test > parsers with > > e.g. from elsewhere: > CHAR = %x01-09 / %x0B / %x0C / %x0E-21 / %x22-5B / %x5D-7F > > Her tool can also be used to test an ABNF writer's intuition about what > their ABNF allows. > > Lisa Lisa, yes yes yes. We're not there yet. We're trying to *carefully* change the ABNF so that it can be fed into a parser. Once we have that, we'll have a tool that can generate a normalized version of the ABNF for the purpose of change tracking. Best regards, Julian
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