ietf-822
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: quoted strings within quoted strings

2002-03-05 10:12:26

In <200203041619(_dot_)05358(_at_)sendmail(_dot_)mutz(_dot_)com> Marc Mutz 
<mutz(_at_)kde(_dot_)org> writes:


On Monday 04 March 2002 12:39, Charles Lindsey wrote:
<snip>

An alternative way would that I am toying with would be to say: 

token = 1*<any (US-ASCII) CHAR except SP, CTLs or tspecials>
value = [CFWS] token [CFWS] / quoted-string
attribute = [CFWS] token [CFWS]
<snip>

But that would imply that the CFWS is _part_ of value and attribute, 
resp. It isn't. CFWS is never semantically relevant.

But if you do it the other way, then CFWS becomes a part of token, which
is even worse.

-- 
Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------
Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133   Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl
Email: chl(_at_)clw(_dot_)cs(_dot_)man(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk      Snail: 5 
Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K.
PGP: 2C15F1A9      Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5