Re: [abnf-discuss] Core Rules and References for ABNF: draft-seantek-abnf-more-core-rules-07.txt

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>In this draft-07 (and draft-06, which had some typos and unclear parts 
>that have since been addressed), the syntax for a "referenced rule" is 
>rulename@RULEREF, where RULEREF can be a document such as
>
>   URI@[RFC3986]
>
>or a path such as
>
>name-part@<https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antlr/grammars-v4/master/abnf/examples/postal.abnf>

Yuck.  I agree it would be nice to make it easier to automatically collect, syntax check,
and use ABNF, but please don't glop up the text with it.

The IETF has already decided that the RFC format is going to be XML, so put the cross
references in the XML where parsing is trivial (given that it's already parsing the
rest of the XML) and you don't need to invent squidgy text kludges to identify
the various things you want to include.

R's,
John