Re: Fwd: Re: schema format questions

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

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Peter Marschall wrote:
> I like Graham's idea very much.
> It's a short simple parser that does it's best to decode these
> things and works in most cases.
> Since RFC2252 allows schemas that allow different interpretations
> (see Chris' mail with the EQUALITYNOORDERINGBORGCOLLECTIVE example)
> one has to make restrictions on schemas to be able to parse them
>  successfully.
> 
> Reading my last lines again, I would suggest a simple
> change to Grahans solution:
> I would disallow closing braces after single quotes inside
> qdstrings, but would allow for qdstringlists with no space between
> the last qdstring and the follwoing closing brace..
> 
> So instead of changing
> 	'([^']*)'
> to
> 	'((?:[^']+|'\S)*)'
> I would suggest changing it to
> 	'((?:[^']+|'[^\s)])*)'

I don't really mind either way. But can you give a reason for this ?

Graham.