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grammar help please [message #491862] Fri, 16 October 2009 09:12 Go to next message
Matt Biggs is currently offline Matt BiggsFriend
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Please could someone help me with a grammar issue? I am trying to write a DSL for an xml based file.

The xml tags/elements only allow specific values so i have written these into the dsl rather than accepting any tag/element.

The problem i'm having is that i cannot get it to accept any character for the data block between the xml tags.

eg:

<constant name="variable1">THIS IS THE DATA I CANT ASSIGN</constant>


So far my dsl consists of:

Constant:
	'<constant' (attributes+=ConstantAttribute)* ('>' data=ID '</constant>' | '/>');

ConstantAttribute:
	name=ConstantAttributeToken '=' value=STRING;

ConstantAttributeToken:
	'name' | 'description';


I have tried assigning data to ID terminal so far, but one strange thing is that is fails if i use any of the tokens specified in 'ConstantAttributeToken'.

Is there a better way for me to write the DSL or how can i simply get it to read any character for the data?

hope this all makes sense

thanks
Re: grammar help please [message #492204 is a reply to message #491862] Mon, 19 October 2009 13:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matt Biggs is currently offline Matt BiggsFriend
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I believe i have managed to solve the problem of it accepting any character, by changing the grammar to that below, however if i use any of the tokens defined in 'ConstantAttributeToken' it still doesn't accept them within the 'data' assignment and i can't understand why.

Is this a bug or is my grammar wrong still? I thought that my ConstantAttributeToken counted as a data type rule and was therefore only valid in certain contexts?


Constant:
	'<constant' (attributes+=ConstantAttribute)* ('>' data=ConstantData '</constant>' | '/>');

ConstantData:
	ANY_OTHER | ID (ANY_OTHER | ID)*;

ConstantAttribute:
	name=ConstantAttributeToken '=' value=STRING;

ConstantAttributeToken:
	'name' | 'description';



Valid Example:

<constant name="variable1">Hello world</constant>


Invalid Example:

<constant name="variable1">Hello description</constant>
Re: grammar help please [message #492213 is a reply to message #491862] Mon, 19 October 2009 13:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Tim  is currently offline Tim Friend
Messages: 21
Registered: August 2009
Junior Member
Maybe not the most beautifully way to do this but it works:
Constant:
	('<constant' (attributes+=ConstantAttribute)* ('>' data=ConstantData '</constant>' | '/>'))+;

ConstantData:
	ANY_OTHER | ID (ANY_OTHER | ID)*;

ConstantAttribute:
	('name=' | 'description=') value=STRING;


Not your 'description' should always have a '=' at the end and cause of this the invalid example becomes valid.
Re: grammar help please [message #492259 is a reply to message #492204] Mon, 19 October 2009 15:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sebastian Zarnekow is currently offline Sebastian ZarnekowFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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Hi Matt,

you could try to use the following pattern:

ConstantData:
(ANY_OTHER | ID | ConstantAttributeToken)+;
// list basically any lexer rule and keyword that may occur as
ConstantData

Please note, that lexer rules and keywords are still global thus a
keyword will never be parsed as an ID.

Hope that helps,
Sebastian
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Matt Biggs schrieb:
> I believe i have managed to solve the problem of it accepting any
> character, by changing the grammar to that below, however if i use any
> of the tokens defined in 'ConstantAttributeToken' it still doesn't
> accept them within the 'data' assignment and i can't understand why.
> Is this a bug or is my grammar wrong still? I thought that my
> ConstantAttributeToken counted as a data type rule and was therefore
> only valid in certain contexts?
>
>
>
> Constant:
> '<constant' (attributes+=ConstantAttribute)* ('>' data=ConstantData
> '</constant>' | '/>');
>
> ConstantData:
> ANY_OTHER | ID (ANY_OTHER | ID)*;
>
> ConstantAttribute:
> name=ConstantAttributeToken '=' value=STRING;
>
> ConstantAttributeToken:
> 'name' | 'description';
>
>
>
> Valid Example:
>
> <constant name="variable1">Hello world</constant>
>
> Invalid Example:
>
> <constant name="variable1">Hello description</constant>
Re: grammar help please [message #492345 is a reply to message #492213] Tue, 20 October 2009 06:21 Go to previous message
Alexander Nittka is currently offline Alexander NittkaFriend
Messages: 1193
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
> ConstantAttribute:
> ('name=' | 'description=') value=STRING;

Of course the drawback is that having a space before "=" in a tag
becomes invalid and again "name=" will not be accepted in the data part.

Another thing to note is that all whitespaces will be missing in the
feature data as they are hidden. So if they are needed in the model
still a little more work is necessary.

Alex


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