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Modification to BNF needed for <line_of_text>?

  • Subject: Modification to BNF needed for <line_of_text>?
  • From: James Hester <jrh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 03:42:02 +0100 (BST)
Hello.

While cleaning up assorted errors in PyCifRW parsing, Ralf
Grosse-Kunstleve and I think we've found an oversight in the BNF
definition.  Consider the following bit of a CIF file:

data_1ACW
# 
_struct_ref.pdbx_seq_one_letter_code   
;VSCEDCPEHCSTQKAQAKCDNDKCVCEPI

;

and the BNF specification for the semicolon delimited data value:

<data_value_2> ::= ';'<SC_bounded_string>';'

<SC_bounded_string>  ::= <char>* <terminate> <line_of_text>* 
<line_of_text> ::= <not_a_semi_colon> <char>* <terminate>
<not_a_semi_colon>      ::= <ordinary_char> | '"' | '#' | '$' | '\''
|'_' | '[' | ']'| <blank>

so, as <not_a_semi_colon> doesn't include <terminate>, it follows that
all lines of text should have at least one non-terminating character in
them, thus excluding the above example.  This could be fixed by changing
the spec to

<line_of_text> ::= <not_a_semi_colon | terminate> <char>* <terminate>

or adding <terminate> to <not_a_semi_colon>

James Hester.

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