Name: "ILDF"
Details: "The Inweb Language Definition File format"
Extension: ".ildf"
Whole Line Comment: "#"

String Literal: "\""
String Literal Escape: "\\"

# Regular expressions are handled here as if character literals
Character Literal: "/"
Character Literal Escape: "\\"

keyword "both"
keyword "brackets"
keyword "characters"
keyword "coloured"
keyword "colouring"
keyword "debug"
keyword "false"
keyword "in"
keyword "instances"
keyword "keyword"
keyword "matches"
keyword "matching"
keyword "not"
keyword "of"
keyword "on"
keyword "optionally"
keyword "prefix"
keyword "runs"
keyword "spaced"
keyword "suffix"
keyword "true"
keyword "unquoted" of !element

colouring {
	runs of !identifier {
		prefix "!" => !element on both
		keyword of !element => !element
		keyword of !reserved => !reserved
	}
	runs of unquoted {
		instances of "=>" {
			=> !reserved
		}
		instances of "{" {
			=> !reserved
		}
		instances of "}" {
			=> !reserved
		}
	}
	characters {
		# Anything left of these colours will be unquoted strings, so...
		coloured !constant => !string
		coloured !identifier => !string
		# Regular expressions, now coloured !character, are more like functions
		coloured !character => !function
	}
	# Detect Property: Value lines, not being fooled by a colon inside quotes
	brackets in /\s*([A-Z][^"]*):.*/ {
		# Uncolour only the bracketed part, i.e., the Property part
		=> !plain
	}
}