Re: example 7.17 in YAML 1.2 spec 2009-07-21

Oren,

> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 15:20 +0900, Osamu TAKEUCHI wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 03:34 +0900, Osamu TAKEUCHI wrote: 
>>>> I noticed the example 7.17. is not reproduced by my 
>>>> parser nor ypaste. To reproduce the result, it is required to 
>>>> replace ( ":" followed by an ns-char ) in the the definition 
>>>> of ns-plain-char(c) by ( ":" followed by an ns-plain-safe(c) ).
>>> I don't see how. The example does work in ypaste. "followed by ns-char"
>>> obviously allows _more_ than "followed by ns-plain-safe(c)". This does
>>> not matter, since the following character is _not_ consumed by this
>>> production, and is left to be consumed by a normal ns-plain-char
>>> production later.
>> ypaste seems to accept "omitted value:" as the key, instead of 
>> "omitted value".
> 
> Yikes! You are right. Two nits though:
> First, it should be followed by ns-plain-char and not ns-plain-safe.

Yes, this makes more sense.

> Second, in c-ns-flow-map-separate-value, c-mapping-value must not be
> followed by an ns-plain-char.

Fmm, I do not see why this is needed.
Could you please give some example that makes unwanted result
with the old rule?

Thanks,
Osamu TAKEUCHI

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