Re: Re: [Tools-discuss] Eustathius, a program to generate texts from formal grammars

["Bill Fenner" <fenner at gmail.com>]

On 10/26/06, Lars Eggert <lars.eggert at netlab.nec.de> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2006, at 15:40, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Eustathius is a set of programs to test ABNF grammars by parsing them
> > and generating texts which obey the grammar.
>
> Very cool!

Yes indeed, I had this intention when I wrote my parser but didn't
have the energy to go beyond parsing and error handling.

> Anyone have a script handy that can extract ABNF from RFCs?

Funny you should ask.  Try http://rtg.ietf.org/~fenner/ietf/aex

It has all sorts of heuristics to extract ABNF bits from the middle of
drafts.  It fails the hardest on documents with SDP examples in them,
since SDP looks awfully like ABNF.

 Bill

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