In most CSS specs, the "Value" cell contains a string that follows the Value Definition Syntax. However, the src descriptor has "see prose" as value which does not describe the actual value that the descriptor can have. While this is clear for human beings, this makes automatic extraction of values from the spec difficult.
In Level 3, the descriptor was defined as [ <url> [format(<string> #)]? | <font-face-name> ] # . Is that no longer possible?