From: Vidar Hokstad <vidar.hokstad@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T03:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Relax NG as a grammar


Daniel Berger wrote:
> Random thought of the day...
>
> I was reading over Tim Bray's blog [1] regarding Relax NG and looking
> over an example of it from wikipedia [2] and I thought to myself,
> "Self, couldn't you use this for a language specification? Say, for
> Ruby even?"

It _is_ meant to be used for language specification, so that's why it
looks suitable. It's only that it's meant for specifying grammars for
languages using XML syntax, and so it's (rightly) very limited in terms
of tokenization etc. which makes it unsuitable for more general
languages like Ruby.

Vidar