Re: Patch: numericString clarification in nadf.schema (ITS#1669)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

Yes, a numeric string is a character string restricted
to numbers and spaces and compared sans the spaces.

The comments in the nadf.schema document are aimed to
highlight a NADF technical specification problem.  That is,
NADF spec has language which implies "leading zero is
significant" yet uses numericString/numericStringMatch.

The comments likely should be reworded for clarity, not
removed.

I note that this schema will likely be pulled from RE 2.1.

Kurt

At 12:59 AM 2002-03-23, h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
>Full_Name: Hallvard B. Furuseth
>Version: 2.1.0alpha
>OS: Solaris
>URL: http://folk.uio.no/hbf/OpenLDAP/numericstring.txt
>Submission from: (NULL) (158.36.148.34)
>
>
>nadf.schema has comments which think a numericString is an integer-like
>syntax.  But numericString is just a string of digits & spaces, so
>leading zero is significant.  It compares like caseIgnoreString sans
>spaces.  See e.g. <http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/2.5.13.9.html>.