This is the mail archive of the
docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
mailing list for the DocBook project.
Re: Proposal #2 for BNF/EBNF markup
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Proposal #2 for BNF/EBNF markup
- From: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:39:11 -0400
- References: <"Eve L. Maler"'s message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:26:35 -0400"> <"Eve L. Maler"'s message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:53:53 -0500"> <4.2.0.58.20000322152856.00ad79b0@abnaki.East.Sun.Com> <4.2.0.58.20000405151715.00961740@abnaki.East.Sun.Com> <4.2.0.58.20000406103917.00b796d0@abnaki.East.Sun.Com>
- Reply-To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
/ "Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com> was heard to say:
| At 05:28 PM 4/5/00 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
| I hadn't intended for constraints to point out to other documents; the
| constraintdef should be in the same document. It's fine with me if it's an
| IDREF.
Ok.
| >I'm starting to think the semantic for 'nt' and 'constraint'
| >should be that the generate content if empty (in which case they
| >must have an IDREF (expressed as an xpointer)) or they can
| >contain content. [Can you say #CONREF? :-)]
|
| That seems okay.
Do we want to support pointers to constraints in other documents?
If not, then I think constraint should be empty.
| On the subject of <nt> vs. <nonterminal>, I agree that it's much more in
| the DocBook style to call it the latter...
Ok.
Be seeing you,
norm
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | I have animal magnatism. When I go
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | outside, squirrels stick to my
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | clothes.