Re: Liberal parsing of schema elements (ITS#1996)

[michael@stroeder.com]

Howard Chu wrote:
> I believe the older code allowed these definitions,

Is it accepted in REL_ENG_2?

> but with rev 1.42
> of schemaparse.c this behavior was removed, so valid OIDs are always
> required.

Please add the liberal behaviour again even though this might hurt 
your "LDAPv3 eyes".

These kind of pseudo-OIDs "objectClassName-oid" are used in 
Netscape/iPlanet Directory Server and Novell eDirectory. It will 
be unpossible to implement schema-aware LDAP applications with the 
current behaviour.

IMHO an application should treat OIDs of object classes opaque 
anyway. Therefore it would not hurt.

Ciao, Michael.