encoding newlines in attribute values

Johnny Bufu johnny at sxip.com
Fri Apr 20 17:56:55 UTC 2007


On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Josh Hoyt wrote:
> Each attribute already has to define its encoding rules and data-
> type. The mechanism for encoding a newline can be part of this
> encoding, if newlines are allowed in the value. Once there is one
> attribute that has a defined encoding for newline, when new
> attributes are defined, they can re-use this encoding. Does that
> sound reasonable?

So are you proposing that AX only accepts strings without newline  
characters in them, and the encoding to such a string should be  
handled by the parties who actually consume the attributes, according  
to the type / metadata specs?

This would be nice and simple for the AX itself, however it would  
require everyone defining attributes to also define a 'encoding to  
strings without newlines' for them.


Johnny





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