Re: small project

[Kurt Zeilenga <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

On Oct 14, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:

> Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
> > [..] then may adding export support to ldapsearch and slapdump
> > (using some sort of content detection to determine whether or not  
> > to use
> > xml-value-spec or not).
>
> Given your worthful but very strict comments about UTF-8 support in  
> LDIF
> "using some sort of content detection" is surprisingly vague  
> here.  ;-)

(Likely a difference in forum and context, standardization v.  
implementation.)

The test I would use would be two fold:

     1) Does the attribute value appear to be UTF-8 encoded Unicode?
     2) Does the attribute value appear to be valid XML syntax?

One would use the xml-value-spec on output iff both were tests passed.

I note that these tests can give false positives just like our  
existing "printable ASCII?" can.  That is, non-text (or text in other  
encodings formats) can be appear to be ASCII, or UTF-8, or XML though  
it's actually not.

> So I guess it boils down to using some configuration.

I rather not (for our tools) go down this route (specifying which  
format to use for which attribute types on a per attribute type basis).

-- Kurt