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Alias pointing to ancestor

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Subject: Alias pointing to ancestor
From: "Jim Sermersheim" <JIMSE@novell.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:16:34 -0700
Cc: <d.w.chadwick@iti.salford.ac.uk>
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A question has risen in the context of some interoperability tests regarding whether it is allowed to have an alias entry that points to an ancestor entry.

I can't find any reference to this in X.501. I see in section 9.5 that an alias can point to a non-leaf, as well as to another alias, but it doesn't mention pointing to accentors.

I assume it's disallowed, otherwise there should be an instruction regarding how circular dereferencing is to be handled. I couldn't find anything like that in X.511.

Is any of this talked about and I'm just missing it?

Jim

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