[Forgive me, I'm having one of those overly productive days] > If anyone knows of something like this, please post it, 1. CSS2 is expressed in EBNF: http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-CSS2/grammar.html 2. So is XML (thanks to Jelks): http://cpcug.org/user/jelks/XML/xmlebnf.html 3. Lots of programming languages can be expressed in BNF: http://cui.unige.ch/db-research/Enseignement/analyseinfo/BNFweb.html 4. Not sure about HTML: "EBNF is also used in many other standards, such as definitions of protocol formats, data formats and markup languages such as XML and SGML. (HTML is not defined with a grammar, instead it is defined with an SGML DTD, which is sort of a higher-level grammar.)" - http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~lmariusg/download/artikler/bnf.html#id3 But HTML can be converted into XML (XHTML) anyway, so who cares? 5. I think EBNF/BNF describe the langauges themselves rather than outputs of those langauges, but I could be wrong (I only ever looked at EBNF once before.....). 6. I don't think this HTML parse tree is in (E)BNF, but it looks interesting all the same: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F&sp=#parse That's the lot. Hoping as ever that this is useful rather than distractive... Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://www.mysterylights.com/sbp/ "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.Received on Sunday, 17 December 2000 12:34:28 GMT
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