metasyntax


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metasyntax

(grammar)
Syntax used to describe syntax. The best known example is BNF and its variants such as EBNF.

A metasyntactic variable is a variable used in metasyntax.
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* a metasyntax for expressing agreed-upon syntaxes for individual document types.
Standard generalized markup language (SGML; ISO/IEC 8879/1986)

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