Re: DOCBOOK: Tags for BNF/EBNF

["Eve L. Maler" <Eve.Maler@east.sun.com>]

I'm on the hook to suggest a design for EBNF markup, based at least partly 
on the XMLspec DTD (which already has this, but the design is a little 
funky).  I'll try to post something in this space by Monday.

         Eve

At 01:47 PM 3/17/00 -0500, Dave Makower wrote:
>I'm using DocBook to create a document explaining to our developers
>our conventions for constructing CVS tags.  Because they're an
>audience of developers, I believe they'll understand a BNF
>description.  Unless I've missed something, there don't seem to be
>DocBook XML tags directed specifically at representing BNF grammars.
>What's the best way to do something like this in DocBook?  Should I
>just give up on conveying such granular structure in the XML and
>use something like <literallayout> with some <replaceable>s thrown
>in?

Eve Maler                                    +1 781 442 3190
Sun Microsystems XML Technology Center    elm @ east.sun.com