- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 17:05:25 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: greenwd@openmarket.com, koen@win.tue.nl, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Koen Holtman: >Tim Greenwood: [...] >>The proposal was intended not as a simplification, but as a >>clarification. Your comment is correct, my proposal would have >>excluded a match that should be allowed. The text in 10.4 should >>still be rewritten to use the syntax defined in 3.10. The current >>text uses the term 'a prefix' which is not defined. > >Ah, so _that_ is the problem. I assumed that 'prefix' was standard >computing terminology, but apparantly it is not. (Prefix means >"initial part of a string".) I'll see if I can find an alternative >wording. OK, here is what I have come up with: the old sentence A language-range matches a language-tag if it exactly equals the tag, or if it is a prefix of the tag such that the first tag character following the prefix is "-". is replaced with A language-range matches a language-tag if it exactly equals the tag, or if it exactly equals a prefix (a sub-sequence starting at the first character) of the tag such that the first tag character following the prefix is "-". I also tried to write text which completely avoided the use of the word `prefix', but that text turned out to be less intelligible. I will assume that this change solves the problem until I hear otherwise. On a related note: I'm currently also working with Jim Gettys to simplify a few sentences in the proposed Accept header draft text. I will post a revised version once we are finished. Koen.
Received on Monday, 8 April 1996 11:01:50 UTC