- From: Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:38:41 -0500
- To: "'Julian Reschke'" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "'HTTP Working Group'" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > In the meantime I noticed that BAP (Bill Fenner's ABNF Parser) can > automatically generate comments for printable byte sequences; with that > feature turned on the generated ABNF is readable enough without the > extra productions. > > See <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/582>. The > section now reads: > > -- snip -- > day-name = %x4D.6F.6E ; "Mon", case-sensitive > / %x54.75.65 ; "Tue", case-sensitive > / %x57.65.64 ; "Wed", case-sensitive > / %x54.68.75 ; "Thu", case-sensitive > / %x46.72.69 ; "Fri", case-sensitive > / %x53.61.74 ; "Sat", case-sensitive > / %x53.75.6E ; "Sun", case-sensitive I think that does make the grammar more readable. > The semantics of day-name, day, month, year, and time-of-day are > the same as those defined in the RFC 5322 constructs with the > corresponding name ([RFC5322], Section 3.3). This wording is a little off. Try: The semantics of day-name, day, month, year, and time-of-day are the same as semantics of the RFC 5322 constructs with the corresponding name ([RFC5322], Section 3.3). Note that this change resolves the issue for rfc1123-date but not for the obsolete forms. - Brian
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