[x3d-public] Mantis 1320: relax requirement for quotedsingle-string value in MFString array

[John Carlson]

Never mind about regex.   Something like JSON’s railroad diagrams would be
preferable.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:10 PM John Carlson <yottzumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> The JSON specification is an example of what I am talking about.   I’m not
> referring to code.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:04 PM Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 7/13/2020 12:31 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > Should we define a state machine
>>
>> No.  MFString is a list of strings.  Parsing is an "implementation
>> detail" that is up to implementers and their algorithms.  This is
>> commonplace.
>>
>> > or regular expression for MFString?
>>
>> * X3D 4 Tooltips: MFString
>>    https://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/X3dTooltips.html#MFString
>>
>> has links to spec, XML Schema, X3D regexes, Java SAI and X3DJSAIL.
>>
>> * X3D Regular Expressions (regexes): MFString
>>
>> https://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dRegularExpressions.html#MFString
>>
>> TODO. Is there a practical regex that can match pairs of unescaped
>> quotation marks?
>>
>> all the best, Don
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