Re: document status: 3028bis, body, editheader

"Mark E. Mallett" <mem(_at_)mv(_dot_)mv(_dot_)com> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 01:37:28PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
...
> > Section 5.7:
> >    The "header" test evaluates to true if the value of any of the named
> >    headers, ignoring leading and trailing whitespace, matches any key.
> Now this brings up the question of what the "value of a header" is.  In
> RFC2822-speak, it would probably really be the "field body of the named
> header fields" .  "header" is used a lot in the draft to mean "header
> field" so that's probably not worth going into (much as I would love to
> suggest it), but the "value of a header" seems cloudy.  OTOH it's a lot
> better than the current rfc3028.
Fixing the draft to not use "header" when it means "header field"
wouldn't be hard.  Ditto for aligning with 2822 on "field body".
Does anyone actually think that change would be a _bad_ thing?


...
> BTW I notice that in 5.1:
>
>   The address test matches Internet addresses ...
>
> this is the only one of the descriptions in section 5 that doesn't put
> the verb in quotes in its opening sentence.  <..>
Fixed.  I've also fixed the 'anyof' and 'allof' tests to match.


Philip Guenther