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B.1 Formal description of SOIF

The SOIF Grammar is as follows:

    SOIF            ::=  OBJECT SOIF | 
                         OBJECT
    OBJECT          ::=  @ TEMPLATE-TYPE { URL ATTRIBUTE-LIST }
    ATTRIBUTE-LIST  ::=  ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTE-LIST | 
                         ATTRIBUTE
    ATTRIBUTE       ::=  IDENTIFIER {VALUE-SIZE} DELIMITER VALUE
    TEMPLATE-TYPE   ::=  Alpha-Numeric-String
    IDENTIFIER      ::=  Alpha-Numeric-String
    VALUE           ::=  Arbitrary-Data
    VALUE-SIZE      ::=  Number
    DELIMITER       ::=  ":<tab>"

 


Duane Wessels
Wed Jan 31 23:46:21 PST 1996