[ragel-users] Help with grammar of XML

Adrian Thurston adrian.thurston at esentire.com
Mon Nov 23 18:56:01 UTC 2009


Indeed it does. It means that in the XML grammar, and in Ragel.

-Adrian

Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> Hi, I've terminating a Ragel parser and to finish it I just must understand 
> the following XML grammar as appears in:
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-AttValue
> 
> 
>  AttValue ::= '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"' |  "'" ([^<&'] | Reference)* "'"
> 
> Could I know which would be the equivalent to [^<&"] in Ragel grammar?
> The problem is that I¡m not 100% sure of what [^<&"] means in the XML grammar 
> as it's not BNF which I'm used to.
> 
> Does [^<&"] means "any symbol but '<', '&' and '"'?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> 




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