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Subject: Re: FWD: Display Manager ASCII Formats
From: Kay-Uwe Kasemir <[email protected]>
To: Matthias Clausen DESY -MKS-2/KRYK- <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:43:55 -0700
Dear Matthias, hi all!

>Why not replacing the existing formats by _one_ generic LEX and YACCed version?
>This way the conversion tools from any to any format also would be a spin off.
LEX and YACC are for sure good tools for implementing a generic format parser.
They do not, however, solve the fundamental problem that we do not
have such a generic format...

>Too ambitious?
Maybe. At first we needed to
* compare the existing formats and
  find tagnames for the common features,
* decide, if booleans
  should we written as 0/1 or t/f or TRUE/FALSE or yes/no or ...,
* choose a format for writing/reading colours etc.,
* foreach (property) { the_same_as_above }
* aggree about tagnames for the special features of each dm
* do what I forgot to list here

Given that implementing a LEX/YACC parser which could be used
as a start in all DMs sounds reasonable.

-Kay



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