On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:19:05 +0200, Edmonds, AndrewX <andrewx.edmonds@intel.com> wrote:
As we use '.' as a character to denote namespace delineation we should also add this to the list of separators, incl. 2616.
We could but I do not see why that would be necessary. The comma separates field values and the equal sign separate attribute name from attribute value. So from the parser's perspective only those two characters need be quoted. However, for consistency I thought it to be a good idea to include the full separator list from RFC2616. But you maybe have an example where the use of an unquoted '.' would confuse the parser? I do however think we should add a policy on attribute names. Both valid characters etc but also the naming policy because the namespace is shared by all categories. This could perhaps go into the Extensions document we talked about. regards, Ralf