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Re: Empty IA5String
At 06:30 PM 11/10/2004, Steven Legg wrote:
>Component matching allows any string matching rule to be applied to any
>string component of any ASN.1 type. There is nothing to prevent those
>string components having zero length. We might be able to force the
>IA5 String syntax to have at least one character but we can't do the
>same for every string component of every ASN.1 type.
Understood.
It would have been nice if IA5String would not have been
used directly in RFC 1274, but instead something like:
CosineIA5String ::= IA5String SIZE (1..max)
but it didn't.
Kurt