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Re: Protocol: attribute selection

At 01:09 PM 3/15/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>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.

Seems it would be better:
        AttributeSelectors ::= SEQUENCE of selector LDAPString
                -- selector constrained to <attributeSelector>

....

Kurt




>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