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Re: protocol: placement of initial/final substrings
At 03:28 PM 12/18/2003, Steven Legg wrote:
>SubstringFilter in [Protocol] is a different ASN.1 type and values of
>this ASN.1 type are always encoded in BER in the protocol. The BER encoding
>distinguishes the initial, any and final components with different context
>specific tags, so the order doesn't matter, and no order is imposed.
I'd argue that there is an ordering has been implicitly imposed
upon the substrings. Otherwise *a*b* would be equivalent to *b*a*
when encoded as BER.
Kurt