Re: We need a EBNF spec

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 07:05 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
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> Personally I would discourage the use of BNF, however, as it makes it very 
> difficult to define error handling rules, and specifications often forget 
> to define how to go from the parsed tree to the semantics that the 
> specification defines, leaving it up to UA implementors to work out the 
> implied mapping.

Defining error handling rules is tricky, no doubt. But I wonder why
you say that BNF makes it more so. What do you prefer?


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