Thursday 6 June 2013

Cut-down XML EBNF

Sometimes, the full XML specification is just overkill. If all you want to do is extract plain data from an XML file, using a conformant parser sometimes gets in the way.

I've been looking at writing a minimal parser for text processing and will no doubt write about my experiences here. In the mean-time, I've prepared a cut-down version of the formal EBNF here.


comment

processing_instruction

character_entity

text


attribute


element


miscellaneous



doctype_declaration

doctype_parameter


doctype


document