Message-Id: <9310300141.AA06972@expresso.bunyip.com>
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd@bunyip.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 21:41:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: Mitra's message as of Oct 29, 20:08
To: mitra@path.net (Mitra), <uri@bunyip.com>
Subject: Re: Data elements and other jazz
[ Mitra wrote: ]
> Chris, I agree with you on this, but there are some outstanding questions
> - in particular the question of nested attributes, or precedence or
> whatever we call it. Someone posted an example nested whois++ template
> (Nested meaning attributes on both the URN's and the URL's) but I didnt
> see any confirmation from Peter (or you?) as to whether its legal in
> whois++ to return multiple instances of the same element, where their
> position in the packet is significant?
There is nothing in the current draft that I recall that
would prevent multiple repeated attributes (I'll look it
over on the plane tomorrow to confirm that). The IAFA doc
allows for them and we planned from the start to support
IAFA so if something in the WHOIS++ doc indicates
otherwise, I'd call it a bug and suggest changing it.
As for supporting nested attributes, it's not clear to me
how you're planning to specify them, so I can't comment on
their feasibility in the current format but since the
output format for WHOIS++ is merely a delimiter for each
record, with a set of attribute/value pairs for each
record, it shouldn't be too hard to accomodate you. If you
need more, just let us know.
- peterd
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