Re: Problem found: Problems with schema changes

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

I went a re-read the RFC too, and scratched my head. Personally I think
it must be an oversight in the RFC.

Graham.

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:49:20PM +0000, John Berthels wrote:
> 
> 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
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