• To: <michael.h.kay@n...>, <xml-dev@l...>, "'Mike Champion'" <mc@x...>
• Subject: XML/EBNF and attribute types. was Re: XSLT and XQuery
• From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@m...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:08:36 -0500
• Cc: "'Jonathan Robie'" <jonathan.robie@s...>
• References: <001301c1986b$3be91c20$465169d5@pcukmka>

>
> (Incidentally the common XML source represents the grammatical productions
> in such a way that a JavaCC parser can be automatically generated using an
> XSLT stylesheet, and this JavaCC parser has been used to test the examples
> in both documents).
>
> Mike Kay
>

Curious, does the common XML source look something like XSet's production
rule language [1]. Looking at the RELAXNGCC parser generator respiked my
interest in using XSLT to generate things like JavaCC grammars.

Indeed to the extent that an XML 'complex type' is essentially a regular XML
expressions, and that simple types are essentially regular string
expressions, I've thought it would be interesting to further develop the
XML/EBNF stuff so that it might be suitable for expressing attribute 'types'
and subtypes of element PCDATA, etc.

Jonathan

[1] http://www.openhealth.org/XSet/ ?

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