- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:13:58 -0500
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: dee3@torque.pothole.com, xml-encryption@w3.org
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 18:51, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > Seection 2 of the syntax spec includes the following example: > <EncryptedData Id? Type?> Elliot, this is what I call "Eastlake BNF" <smile/>. The intent is to succinctly express the overall structure and optionality of the EncryptedData instance. We used this in xmldsig (and has appeared in other specs now...) where it also had a brief description. > More substantively, I think this whole example is confusing. It is > not obvious what the question marks stand for (0 or 1 as in DTDs?) > Some elements are missing their end tags. The editors' draft [1] now has the typo corrected and the description. I originally approached this syntax with the same hesitation but folks seem to like it and we've received few complaints, so hopefully with the addition of the key it will be more useful. [1] http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/Drafts/xmlenc-core/ $Revision: 1.122 $ on $Date: 2002/01/30 16:12:00 $ GMT by $Author: reagle $ -- Joseph Reagle Jr. http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/Signature/ W3C XML Encryption Chair http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
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