Re: ACTION-2130: Summarise the apache email validation

I have the first of these running at

 http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/forms/examples/email.xml

Steven

On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:53:09 +0200, Steven Pemberton  
<steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:

> So here's a possible approach:
>
> 1. We include an ascii email type, a subset of RFC 5321:
>
>    email: atom ("." atom)* "@" sub ("." sub)+
>
>    sub: letdig (ldh* letdig)?
>    letdig: a-Z A-Z 0-9
>    ldh: letdig | "-"
>    atom: atext+atext: ALPHA | DIGIT
>          | "!" | "#" | "$" | "%" | "&" | "'" | "*" | "+" | "-" | "/"
>          | "=" | "?" | "^" | "_" | "`" | "{" | "|" | "}" | "~"
>
> This drops address literals, quoted strings, and requires at least one  
> "." after the @
>
> 2. We add an "international" email type:
>
>     iemail: atom ("." atom)* "@" sub ("." sub)+
>
>     sub: letdig (ldh* letdig)? | U-label
>     letdig: a-Z A-Z 0-9
>     ldh: letdig | "-"
>     atom: atext+
>     atext: ALPHA | DIGIT
>          | "!" | "#" | "$" | "%" | "&" | "'" | "*" | "+" | "-" | "/"
>          | "=" | "?" | "^" | "_" | "`" | "{" | "|" | "}" | "~"
>          | non-ascii
>     U-label: <still have to work out exactly the definition, but a  
> string of unicode characters with some restriction>
>
> This also drops address literals, quoted strings, and requires at least  
> one "." after the @, but allows non-ascii characters on both sides of  
> the @.
>
> Steven

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