Re: ASCII Name and URL Elements (2nd)

[Roger H. <rog...@mi...>]

On 14 May, 2007, at 00:32, James W. Walker wrote:

>
> 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.

I agree. But here, can't we just read everything up to the colon?