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Jan Tisje wrote:
there are BNFs available for URL, but BNF is no standard, so syntax is odd (to me) lex does not expect BNF but it's own format.
URI, BNF in appendix A http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html URL, BNF in chapter 5 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html
Their BNF-like syntax is explained in RFC 822 (although they seem to use pipes instead of slashes for alternatives): http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html
btw, the filemanager will use plugins to view the file contents. **** Who wants to write some plugin DLLs? **** they may be written in C, interface will be strictly WinAPI standard.
There will be two types of DLLs
- those that render to a windows device context (or bitmap, I do not
know yet)
- and those that convert a file to a HTML representation.
Also think of audio/video please (perhaps not immediately, but be sure to keep it in the back of your head).