Re: Protocol: attribute selection

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

I think an earlier message about this may have gotten lost:

In [protocol]-22 4.5.1 (Search Request),

the ASN.1 list of attributes has the confusing names

        AttributeSelection ::= SEQUENCE OF selection LDAPString 
                -- constrained to <attributeSelection> below 

so in plain language, the attributes are a selection of a selection.

Also, it is selection and not AttributeSelection which is constrained to
<attributeSelection>, which is the syntax for _one_ attribute:

     attributeSelection = attributedescription / selectionspecial 

So an AttributeSelection is a sequence of attributeSelections...

I suggest to call the ABNF token and the 'selection' ASN.1 name
'requestedAttribute', 'searchAttr' or something.

-- 
Hallvard