I found several problems with this draft.
In overview, the reason that we removed the #rule from ABNF was that it was
very difficult to specify for a general case. This draft has the same
problem.
The production given does not actually produce the desired results.
> n^(a)m element = ( n(*LWS element) *o(*LWS a *LWS element))
If the usage is:
5^(",")10 "abc"
it would allow something like:
abc abc abc abc abc abc , abc
not:
abc, abc, abc, abc, abc, abc, abd
which was probably intended.
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The production:
> a = VCHAR / SP / HT / <any other separator>
does not seem to address the possibility of multi-character separators very
clearly. What if I want to define a list like:
abc and def and ghi and jkl
can I use:
^(" and ")ident
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I also do not believe that *FWS belongs in such a general rule and should
rather be defined by the actual usage. E.g.:
5^(*FWS "," *FWS)10 "abc"
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Typo: 2.1 Examples, fourth example should be: ^("-")element
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Bill McQuillan <McQuilWP@xxxxxxxxx>
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