json-ebnf.txt

"Name"     = JSON Grammar
"Author"   = Arsène von Wyss
"Version"  = 1.0
"About"    = 'Grammar for JSON data, following http://www.json.org/'
! and compliant with http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627

"Start Symbol" = <Json>
"Case Sensitive" = True
"Character Mapping" = 'Unicode'

! ------------------------------------------------- Sets

{Unescaped} = {All Valid} - {&1 .. &19} - ["\]
{Hex} = {Digit} + [ABCDEFabcdef]
{Digit9} = {Digit} - [0]

! ------------------------------------------------- Terminals

Number = '-'?('0'|{Digit9}{Digit}*)('.'{Digit}+)?([Ee][+-]?{Digit}+)?
String = '"'({Unescaped}|'\'(["\/bfnrt]|'u'{Hex}{Hex}{Hex}{Hex}))*'"'

! ------------------------------------------------- Rules

<Json> ::= <Object>
         | <Array>

<Object> ::= '{' '}'
           | '{' <Members> '}'

<Members> ::= <Pair>
            | <Pair> ',' <Members>

<Pair> ::= String ':' <Value>

<Array> ::= '[' ']'
          | '[' <Elements> ']'

<Elements> ::= <Value>
             | <Value> ',' <Elements>

<Value> ::= String
          | Number
          | <Object>
          | <Array>
          | true
          | false
          | null