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  • From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
  • To: "xml-dev@l... OASIS" <xml-dev@l...>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 09:50:44 -0600

[Michael Kay]

>If I remember right, Jackson didn't really make a connection between data
>designed with sequence, iteration, and selection on the one hand, and
>EBNF-based grammars on the other.

I think it was C.A. Hoare who joined the dots to at least Regular Expressions in 1977. See http://people.csail.mit.edu/dnj/talks/mjtribute09/hoare-jsp.pdf.

Sean



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