Re: ASCII Name and URL Elements (2nd)

[James W. W. <os...@jw...>]

On May 12, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Stefan Huber wrote:

> Please ignore the previous mail. So once again...
>
> "Apple Computer, Inc.:NameElement" and "Apple Computer, Inc.:
> URLElement" are not very parser friendly.
>
> The problem is in E3FFR_3DMF_Text.c/ 
> e3fformat_3dmf_text_readobjecttype.
> E3FileFormat_GenericReadText_ReadUntilChars with argument blank =
> true cannot read object types with blanks in their name. So the
> parser tries to handle an object "Apple" and runs into trouble.

I wish Apple had published a formal grammar for ASCII 3DMF.  It is  
not clear to me how the parser is supposed to know where an object  
type ends, or how to tell the difference between a label and an  
object type.