Subj : help with ebnf for ebnf newbie?
To   : comp.programming
From : pantagruel
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 01:31 pm

I don't have any experience with EBNF or just normal BNF, and I want to
define a comma seperated string of name value pairs, with some
predefined names, although no names that are required, the associator
between name and value should be a '=' character. I am thinking
something like this:

<value-list> ::= DefaultNames | Name "=" Value ","| <value-list>
DefaultNames  ::=  "callid=" Value "," | "callfrom=" Value
Value ::= <Text, excluding CR/LF>
Name ::= <Text, excluding CR/LF>


this should match

callid=wotcha,callfrom=whoyathunk,testing=othervalue


is this wrong?

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