[Ietf-calsify] ABNF

Alexey Melnikov alexey.melnikov at isode.com
Mon Sep 25 10:54:25 PDT 2006


Eliot Lear wrote:

>Cyrus,
>  
>
>>Unfortunately ABNF itself does not have the concept of an 'unordered'
>>list of items. However, the last time I discussed this with ABNF
>>folks, I think the general consensus was that it was OK to add a
>>comment to the ABNF stating that all items in that element were
>>'unordered'. So we could have:
>>
>>calprops   =  prodid version [calscale] [method] *x-prop
>>             ; can appear in any order
>>
>>I do think that is better than having comments indicating the
>>frequency of occurrence of each element as we have now.
>>    
>>
>
>We have to be extremely careful about these changes, but I believe the
>above text is actually more clear than what is there.  Does anyone
>object to this change?
>  
>
I don't have any objections, however many people don't bother reading 
ABNF. So this comment should also appear in the text.



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