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Re: empty strings

At 03:12 PM 11/23/00 +0100, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
>Joeri van Ruth wrote:
>> 
>> It seems that LDAP does not allow empty strings as
>> attribute values.  Why is this?  Isn't the empty string
>> a perfectly fine string?
>
>Yep, but it is not a value. An empty string means ``this attribute has
>no value'' and is equivalent to ``this attribute does not exist''.

No.

An attribute has one or more values.  If allowed per the
attribute's syntax, one of these values may be empty.