RE: Quoting of attribute values

["Steven Legg" <steven.legg@adacel.com.au>]

Hallvard,

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> draft-ietf-ldapbis-syntaxes-02.txt says:
> 
> > 2.1  Notation
> >   In cases where an arbitrary string, not a Distinguished 
> Name or part 
> >   of one, is used in a value of an attribute, a backslash quoting 
> >   mechanism is used to escape the following separator symbol 
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   character, (such as, "'", "$" or "#") if it occurs in that 
> >   string.  The backslash is followed by a pair of 
> hexadecimal digits 
> >   representing the next character.  A backslash itself in 
> the string 
> >   which forms part of a larger syntax is always represented 
> as '\5C' 
> >   or '\5c'.  An example is given in section 3.33, 
> postalAddress syntax.
> 
> I'm not quite sure I understand this.  Does it mean that only syntaxes
> with separators are quoted like this, or are backslashes quoted in
> simple string syntaxes that do not have without separators too?
> Also, is it _allowed_ to quote non-separator characters?

I've thrown this paragraph out for the -04 draft and put explicit
ABNF in each syntax where it applies. In each case it is only the
specific separator character that is escaped (plus "\", of course). 

Regards,
Steven