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On Oct 13, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
> In that Oracle doc it looks to me like both the text command syntax (
>http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/img_text/model_rules_clause.htm
> ) and the railroad diagram GIF (
>http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/img/model_rules_clause.gif
> ) are generated from EBNF (or whatever source Oracle uses to define
> their SQL grammar).
>
> Do you know any tools that can do that?
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> The "ascii form" you mention is called EBNF ("extended backus-naur format") and there is a specification for defining languages in it. The diagrams are called railroad diagrams and are usually generated from the EBNF itself.
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