gherkin syntax highlighting for kde/katepart. not of my making, but copied from http://paste.kde.org/184712/

gherkin.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>                                                  
<!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">                                               
                                                                                        
<!--                                                                                    
  Gherkin (English) syntax highlighting definition for Kate.                            
                                                                                        
  Copyright (C) 2011  by Torbjörn Klatt (opensource@torbjoern-klatt.de)                 
                                                                                        
  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or                         
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public                           
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either                          
  version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.                      
                                                                                        
  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,                       
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of                        
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU                     
  Library General Public License for more details.                                      
                                                                                        
  You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public                     
  License along with this library; if not, write to the                                 
  Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,                      
  Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.                                                          
-->                                                                                     
                                                                                        
<!--                                                                                    
TODO:                                                                                   
 - fix: support for multiline strings (https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Multiline-Step-Arguments)                                                                      
 - fix: get the 'words' in the 'Feature' decleration blue
 - fix: get the text after the 'words' in the 'Feature' decleration green
-->
<language name="Gherkin (en)"
      section="Scripts"
      version="1.00"
      kateversion="2.4"
      extensions="*.feature"
      author="Torbjörn Klatt (opensource@torbjoern-klatt.de)"
      license="LGPL">
  <highlighting>
    <list name="keywords">
      <item> Feature </item>
      <item> Background </item>
      <item> Scenario Outline </item>
      <item> Scenario Template </item>
      <item> Scenario </item>
      <item> Examples </item>
      <item> Scenarios </item>
    </list>
    <list name="words">
      <item> In order </item>
      <item> As a </item>
      <item> I want </item>
    </list>
    <list name="steps">
      <item> Given </item>
      <item> When </item>
      <item> Then </item>
      <item> And </item>
      <item> But </item>
    </list>
    <contexts>
      <context attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#stay" name="normal">
        <DetectChar attribute="Comment" context="comment" char="#" />
        <keyword attribute="Keyword" context="keyword" String="keywords" />
        <keyword attribute="Feature" context="feature" String="words" />
        <keyword attribute="Step" context="#stay" String="steps" />
        <DetectChar attribute="String" context="string" char="&quot;" />
        <StringDetect String="&quot;&quot;&quot;" attribute="String" lineEndContext="#stay" beginRegion="String" />
        <RangeDetect char="&lt;" char1="&gt;" attribute="Placeholder" context="#pop" />
      </context>
      <context attribute="Keyword" lineEndContext="#pop" name="keyword">
        <DetectChar attribute="Keyword" context="feature" char=":" />
      </context>
      <context attribute="Feature" lineEndContext="#pop" name="feature">
        <keyword attribute="Step" context="#stay" String="words" />
      </context>
      <context attribute="String" lineEndContext="#pop" name="string">
        <DetectChar attribute="String" context="#pop" char="&quot;" />
      </context>
      <context attribute="String" lineEndContext="#stay" name="multilinestring">
        <DetectString String="&quot;&quot;&quot;" attribute="String" context="#pop" endRegion="String" />
      </context>
      <context attribute="Comment" lineEndContext="#pop" name="comment">
        <DetectChar attribute="Comment" char="#" />
      </context>
    </contexts>
    <itemDatas>
      <itemData name="Normal Text" bold="false" color="#000000" spellChecking="true" />
      <itemData name="Keyword" bold="true" color="#0000FF" spellChecking="false" />
      <itemData name="Feature" bold="false" color="#00AA00" spellChecking="true" />
      <itemData name="Step" bold="false" color="#0000FF" spellChecking="false" />
      <itemData name="String" bold="false" color="#AA0000" spellChecking="true" />
      <itemData name="Placeholder" bold="false" color="#FF9966" spellChecking="false" />
      <itemData name="Comment" bold="false" italic="true" color="#AAAAAA" spellChecking="true" />
    </itemDatas>
  </highlighting>
  <general>
    <comments>
      <comment name="singleLine" start="#" />
    </comments>
    <keywords casesensitive="1" />
  </general>
</language>