Re: semicolons in DNs

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 10:21 AM 8/9/00 +0200, Michael Ströder wrote:
>HI!
>
>A questions concerning semicolons in DNs:
>Section 4. of RFC2253 says:
>"Implementations MUST allow a semicolon character to be used instead
>of a comma to separate RDNs in a distinguished name,.."
>
>Hmm, how to write a robust DN parser which figures out if semicolon
>or comma is used to separate RDNs? I'm thinking of conflicts with
>LDAPv3 sub-types in a RDN which are also separated from attribute
>name by a semicolon.

Only values of AttributeTypes, not AttributeDescriptions, can be used
for naming.  That is "cn;lang_en=Kurt" is an invalid DN.

>Hmm, are there still LDAP clients/servers out there which use ; to
>separate RDNs? (You see I'm somewhat lazy... ;-)

Yes.  But they are diminishing in numbers.

Kurt