Re: CAP-12-e: 8.22 MULTIPART Property ABNF

yes, I believe I sent out a note for both -9 and -10 about this...


On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 [email protected] wrote:

> In looking at the CAP-12-e draft I see in Section 8.22 MULTIPART Property
> the following:
>
> 8.22 MULTIPART Property
>
>    Property Name: MULTIPART
> [Snip, snip]
>    Formal Definition: The property is defined by the following notation:
>
>
>    name = "MULTIPART" other-params ":" text *( "," text) CRLF
>
> so this section is defining an ABNF for 'name' to be used elsewhere.  But
> the next section 8.23 NAME Property says:
>
> 8.23 NAME Property
>
>    Property Name: NAME
> [Snip, snip]
>    Formal Definition: The property is defined by the following notation:
>
>    name = "NAME" nameparam ":" text CRLF
>
> which appears to define the same ABNF value.  This is not goodness (or at
> least it should be using the "/=" instead of "=" if it were an extension
> of name)
>
> I suspect that the ABNF under Section 8.22 just needs touching up and any
> references to MULTIPART need to be santiy checked.
>
> Bruce
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