ABNF for name-value pairs

Hi all,

The summer is over, when will work on the spec continue? When we left off,  
we had a bit of a standstill on the issue of parsing and error handling.  
I'm looking at perhaps making a demo implementation of MF in Opera and  
would like to get this issue hammered out. Here's a snippet of ABNF I  
wrote for myself back then for how I think the structure should be defined  
in ABNF.

# fragment from URI

name = fragment - "&" - "="
value = fragment - "&"
namevalue = name [ "=" value ]
namevalues = namevalue *( "&" namevalue )

This is equivalent to first splitting on & and then splitting again on the  
first =, which is nice and simple and matches how query strings work in  
many existing server-side languages.

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Philip Jägenstedt
Core Developer
Opera Software