[antlr-interest] Simple Grammar Problem

[Brian Geffon]

Hi,

I'm using antlr 3 and I'm trying to create a simple grammar, a simple
example is below, I'm trying to allow for any text but embedded within
it some special tags. I'm calling the arbitary text with no tags
embedded a buffer, in addition i'm trying to support loop tags,
partial tags, and comments. So a valid input might be:
{#loop1}{>partial1}Blah BlAh! Test{#loop2}foo{/loop2}{/loop1}, but I'm
having trouble with the arbitrary text in between tags. Do I have to
create a lexer rule like '\u0000'..'\uFFFF' for it to work, because
that seems a little crazy to have to do that. Thanks in advance.

Brian


grammar Dust;

options {
 language=Java;
}

start   : body EOF;

body    : (loop | partial | buffer)*
       ;

loop    : '{#' IDENT '}'
          body
         '{/' IDENT '}'
       ;

partial : '{>' IDENT '}'
       ;

buffer  : ~('{' | EOF)+;

foo     : COMMENT;

IDENT   : 'a'..'z'+;
COMMENT : '{!' .* '!}'
       ;