Xml Mailing List: Re: comments on draft-frascone-aaa-xml-dictionary-00.txt

[Yoshihiro Ohba (yohba]

Let me split my response into multiple emails.

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:34:06PM -0500, David Frascone wrote:
> I *think* I see what you're trying to do here.  But, since "fixed" is
> more of an attribute (logically, not syntatically), I'm not sure what
> the meaning of having zero or more "fixed's" around is.  Using your
> terminology, I think something like this is more appropriate (although,
> again, I do not agree with this change.  I like it the way it was)
> And, I don't know why you have two fixed's.
> 
>    <!ELEMENT requestrules (avprule+)>
>    <!ELEMENT avprule EMPTY>
>       <!ATTLIST avprule
>          fixed (yes|no) "no"
>          required (yes|no) "no"
>          optional (yes|no) "yes">
> 

I don't think this works, since there are two fixed parts, one at the
head and another at the tail of a command, according to the following
ABNF definition in the base spec.

      diameter-message = header  [ *fixed] [ *required] [ *optional]
                         [ *fixed]

Yoshihiro Ohba