File Content: Overview

Introduction

First, it is important to differentiate between the file's format and the file's content. When a document is saved to a file (for instance, a Microsoft Word file) it can be later retrieved and the work continued. This is possible since the application knows how information is stored and can, therefore, read its contents reliably. On the other hand, the actual content of the document can differ greatly from one file to the next (i.e. a report on Sacramento to an essay on parsing techniques).

This section describes the contents of the Compiled Grammar Table file. This documentation also contains a description of the file's format.

File Contents

The information for the compiled grammar is stored using eight separate types of "records":

• Parameters
• Table Counts
• Character Set Table Entry
• Symbol Table Entry
• Rule Table Entry
• Initial States
• DFA State Table Entry
• LALR State Table Entry