Re: ASCII Name and URL Elements (2nd)

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

On May 14, 2007, at 2:21 AM, Roger Holmes wrote:

>
> 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?

That takes you to the middle of the name element object type.  Then  
what?  It appears that in a label, the colon should always be  
followed by a line break.  So, if it's not followed by a line break,  
we continue reading up to the open parenthesis?