Re: ABNF for draft-smith-ldapv3-filter-update-01.txt

[mcs@netscape.com (Mark C Smith)]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
>         escaped = "\00" / "\2" ( "8" / "9" / "a" ) / "\5c"
> 
> is too limiting.  RFC 2254 says:
> 
>    Other characters besides the ones listed above may be escaped
>    using this mechanism, for example, non-printing characters.

Right.


> So,
>         escaped = "\" HEX HEX
>         HEX = %x30-39 / %x41-46 / %x61-66
> 
> would, I believe, be better.  Also, some comment that if
> a multiple-octet character is escaped that each octet
> of the character is individually escaped.  See 2253bis for
> one possible wording.

Okay.  I already submitted the revised filter draft (yesterday) as
draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-00.txt, so I will fix this during my next
round of edits.

-Mark