- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:43:22 -0600
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, spec-prod@w3.org, www-qa@w3.org
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 07:05 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: [...] > 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? -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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