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Subject: Re: [abnf-discuss] Some thoughts about how to make ABNF more
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On 12/29/12 1:39 AM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) wrote:
> On 12/29/12 1:11 AM, "Paul Kyzivat" <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 12/29/12 12:56 AM, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
>
>>> Has there ever been a similar proposal for delimiting and automating
>>> extraction of sample code from RFCs?
>>
>> I don't know. That's why I'm asking.
>
> Yes.  That's on the rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org mailer.  It has been
> asserted there that nobody would ever want to extract the ABNF from an I-D
> or RFC programmatically, so perhaps you'd like to weigh in.

OK, I'll look into that.

> The prototype I have for a possible way forward does what you want already:
>
> https://github.com/IETF-Formatters/html-rfc

That would be complementary to what I have in mind.
It would cover the extraction of abnf from a draft.

The other part I am interested in is extending abnf syntax to allow a 
formal import of abnf from one draft into another draft.

	Thanks,
	Paul

> If you have nicely marked-up HTML and an ABNF parser handy, the checking
> ABNF for syntax errors is as small as:
>
> https://github.com/IETF-Formatters/html-rfc/blob/master/nits/check-abnf.js
>
>

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