Subject: Feature syntax string values

From: Graham Klyne <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:22:19 +0000

All,

It has been pointed out that the syntax did not provide any mechanism for
allowing quotes within a quoted string.  I have modified the draft to allow
'\'-escaping for any character (specifically '\' and '"') within a string
value.

Revised syntax productions are:

  string     =  DQUOTE *( str-char / esc-pair ) DQUOTE
                ; quoted string of SP and VCHAR without DQUOTE
  str-char   =  ( %x20-21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-7E )
                ; any of SP or VCHAR without DQUOTE or '\'
  esc-pair   =  "\" any-char
  any-char   =  ( SP / VCHAR )

This is the only last-call change (so far) that is not simply an editorial
clarification.

#g

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Graham Klyne
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