>>> Steven Legg <steven.legg@adacel.com.au> 12/18/03 8:16:09 PM >>>
> >Yes, the ordering of the "any"s matters. I just had a look what X.511 says >about the substrings in a FilterItem. It defers to X.520 and the >SubstringAssertion type (flakey, since it's a different type). >X.520 says: > >"There shall be at most one *initial*, and at most one *final* in *strings*. >If *initial* is present, it shall be the first element of *strings*. If >*final* is present, it shall be the last element of *strings*." > >Exactly what is meant by *strings* isn't actually defined, 'strings' is the name of the SEQUENCE OF CHOICE defined in the X.511 sequence definition, so it's probably refering to that.
>but the probable
>intent of all this is that the substrings in filter items are meant to be >ordered the same way. A statement to that effect in the protocols draft >would be appropriate. Ok, I'll update to reflect this. Jim |