Changeset 810 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml

Timestamp:

Apr 16, 2010, 4:49:52 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

Introduce "word = token / quoted-string" into ABNF and use it throughout (see #200)

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml (modified) (7 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml

@@ -470 +470 @@
   <x:anchor-alias value="token"/>
   <x:anchor-alias value="special"/>
+  <x:anchor-alias value="word"/>
    Many HTTP/1.1 header field values consist of words (token or quoted-string)
    separated by whitespace or special characters. These special characters
@@ -475 +476 @@
    in <xref target="transfer.codings"/>).
 </t>
-<figure><artwork type="abnf2616"><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="token"/><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="tchar"/><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="special"/>
+<figure><artwork type="abnf2616"><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="word"/><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="token"/><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="tchar"/><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="special"/>
+  <x:ref>word</x:ref>           = <x:ref>token</x:ref> / <x:ref>quoted-string</x:ref>
+
   <x:ref>token</x:ref>          = 1*<x:ref>tchar</x:ref>
 <!--
@@ -1841 +1844 @@
   <x:ref>transfer-parameter</x:ref>      = <x:ref>attribute</x:ref> <x:ref>BWS</x:ref> "=" <x:ref>BWS</x:ref> <x:ref>value</x:ref>
   <x:ref>attribute</x:ref>               = <x:ref>token</x:ref>
-  <x:ref>value</x:ref>                   = <x:ref>token</x:ref> / <x:ref>quoted-string</x:ref>
+  <x:ref>value</x:ref>                   = <x:ref>word</x:ref>
 </artwork></figure>
 <t>
@@ -2954 +2957 @@
   <x:ref>t-codings</x:ref> = "trailers" / ( <x:ref>transfer-extension</x:ref> [ <x:ref>te-params</x:ref> ] )
   <x:ref>te-params</x:ref> = <x:ref>OWS</x:ref> ";" <x:ref>OWS</x:ref> "q=" <x:ref>qvalue</x:ref> *( <x:ref>te-ext</x:ref> )
-  <x:ref>te-ext</x:ref>    = <x:ref>OWS</x:ref> ";" <x:ref>OWS</x:ref> <x:ref>token</x:ref> [ "=" ( <x:ref>token</x:ref> / <x:ref>quoted-string</x:ref> ) ]
+  <x:ref>te-ext</x:ref>    = <x:ref>OWS</x:ref> ";" <x:ref>OWS</x:ref> <x:ref>token</x:ref> [ "=" <x:ref>word</x:ref> ]
 </artwork></figure>
 <t>
@@ -5018 +5021 @@
 <x:ref>tchar</x:ref> = "!" / "#" / "$" / "%" / "&amp;" / "'" / "*" / "+" / "-" / "." /
  "^" / "_" / "`" / "|" / "~" / DIGIT / ALPHA
-<x:ref>te-ext</x:ref> = OWS ";" OWS token [ "=" ( token / quoted-string ) ]
+<x:ref>te-ext</x:ref> = OWS ";" OWS token [ "=" word ]
 <x:ref>te-params</x:ref> = OWS ";" OWS "q=" qvalue *te-ext
 <x:ref>time-of-day</x:ref> = hour ":" minute ":" second
@@ -5030 +5033 @@
 <x:ref>uri-host</x:ref> = &lt;host, defined in [RFC3986], Section 3.2.2&gt;
 
-<x:ref>value</x:ref> = token / quoted-string
+<x:ref>value</x:ref> = word
+
+<x:ref>word</x:ref> = token / quoted-string
 
 <x:ref>year</x:ref> = 4DIGIT
@@ -5535 +5540 @@
       "Case-sensitivity of HTTP-date"
     </t>
+    <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/200"/>:
+      "use of term "word" when talking about header structure"
+    </t>
   </list>
 </t>