Re: [O] Formal description of Org files

[Christian Egli]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> At FOSDEM, someone asked me if there was a formal description of the
> structure of Org files, in some language that would be the input for a
> parser (or parser generator?) so that Org file could be easily parsed.

Maybe the person was talking about antlr[1], "ANother Tool for Language
Recognition, a language tool that provides a framework for constructing
recognizers, interpreters, compilers, and translators from grammatical
descriptions containing actions in a variety of target languages".

It even seems to have preliminary support for generating an elisp
parser[2][3]

There is also an emacs mode for editing antlr files[4].

Sounds like an interesting project.

Thanks
Christian

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.antlr.org/
[2]  http://www.antlr.org/wiki/display/ANTLR3/Code+Generation+Targets
[3]  https://github.com/olabini/antlr-elisp
[4]  http://antlr-mode.sourceforge.net/
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Christian Egli
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