- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:59:16 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, spec-prod@w3.org, www-qa@w3.org
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Dan Connolly wrote: > > 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? Prose. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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