- From: Scott Lawrence <scott@skrb.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:20:24 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys@hp.com>
- Cc: Roy Fielding <roy.fielding@day.com>, Jeffrey Mogul <jeff.mogul@hp.com>, Scott Lawrence <scott@skrb.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Jim Gettys <Jim.Gettys@hp.com> writes: > Language-Tag = Primary-subtag *( "-" Subtag ) > Primary-subtag = 1*8ALPHA > Subtag = 1*8(ALPHA / DIGIT) > > HTTP/1.1 RFC 2616 defines these as: > language-tag = primary-tag *( "-" subtag ) > primary-tag = 1*8ALPHA > subtag = 1*8ALPHA > > Is there any danger in relaxing the HTTP BNF to remove the > inconsistency (the hob-goblin of small minds :-))? I think that would be safe - I doubt anyone is depending on there not being digits in there, and even if they are, the fallback rules should make them match on the less-specific primary tag. -- Scott Lawrence http://skrb.org/scott/
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