Re: Problem found: Problems with schema changes

[John B. <joh...@ne...>]

Hi folks.

Sorry for trouble with the clearly-not-quite-production schema code.

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Clif Harden wrote:

> What I find strange is why the schema code could parse the record
> before the patches and not afterwords.  I/we did not change anything
> in the parse code.
>
> I also think that the ' in I'M should be escaped with a
> \ if it is going to be used this way.

Well, you (and I :-) would like to think so. I may be way off, but I don't
see the standard as being clear.

from RFC2252:

"Terms which begin with the characters "X-" are reserved for private
experiments, and MUST be followed by a <qdstrings>."

and:

"utf8 = <any sequence of octets formed from the UTF-8 [9]
                       transformation of a character from ISO10646 [10]>

   dstring = 1*utf8

    qdstring = whsp "'" dstring "'" whsp

    qdstringlist = [ qdstring *( qdstring ) ]

    qdstrings = qdstring / ( whsp "(" qdstringlist ")" whsp )"


So...why can't qdstrings contain unquoted ' and ) chars?

What have I missed?


jb