Re: Question about attribute name

<quote who="Pierangelo Masarati">

Gavin Henry wrote:

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Hmmm, that's exactly what I found and quoted this morning.

ABNF has:

DOT = %x2E ; period (".")

So that _should_ be legal?

I read it this way:

<rfc4512> 2.5. Attribute Descriptions

An attribute description is composed of an attribute type (see Section 2.5.1) and a set of zero or more attribute options (see Section 2.5.2).

An attribute description is represented by the ABNF:

  attributedescription = attributetype options
  attributetype = oid
  options = *( SEMI option )
  option = 1*keychar

</rfc4512>

let's forget about options and focus on attributetype:

<rfc4512> oid = descr / numericoid </rfc4512>

let's also forget about numericoid and focus on descr:

<rfc4512> descr = keystring </rfc4512>

<rfc4512> keystring = leadkeychar *keychar leadkeychar = ALPHA keychar = ALPHA / DIGIT / HYPHEN ... ALPHA = %x41-5A / %x61-7A ; "A"-"Z" / "a"-"z" DIGIT = %x30 / LDIGIT ; "0"-"9" ... HYPHEN = %x2D ; hyphen ("-") </rfc4512>

That's it. There's no room for other chars.

Ah, that's clear. I hadn't learned how to read the macros.

Thanks ando.

Gavin.