On Sat, 25 May 2002, Egon Andersen, Talura wrote: > Paul Thorpe wrote: > > > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Egon Andersen, Talura wrote: > > > > > Paul Thorpe wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Egon, > > > > > > > > You have the latest version (pre-published). The only > > > > changes that will be made before publication are that the > > > > cross-references will be updated to point to clauses in the ASN.1 > > > > 2002 edition. > > > > > > > Thanks, but that is actually in contradiction to the message I got when p> > > I sent a defect report on the document related to clause 9.4, where > > > "xmlhstring" will give a non-unique encoding. > > > So I'm a little confused. > > > > There was an editorial omission in 9.3.1 and in 9.4 which will be in the > > published version. Add "with all white-space removed" to the end of > > 9.3.1, and add "with all white-space removed, and all letters in > > upper-case" to the end of 9.4. > > > I would prefere 'over-decadic hexadecimal digits' instead of 'letters'. > (BEEF will mean different things, either re-cycled bits or something > eatable.) > Furthermore I think we still have a problem, if the number of > hexadecimal digits is an odd number. 1FF and 1FF0 shall be interpreted > the same, according to X.680 (2002) 22.8. > I think we have to restrict the number of hexadecimal digits to be: "not > an odd number of hexadecimal digits". > (And now when I read 22.8 again, the wording '... is not an even number > ...' may be better if it was written: '... is an odd number ...', > because the number 0 (zero) is sometimes debated whether it is an even > number or not! As I remember it, 0 (zero) is not an even number in the > strict mathematical sence.) >
I will forward this to ASN.1 standard committee which will be meeting next week, but expect that if any change is needed here, it will be need to be processed as a Technical Corrigendum after the current publication process has been completed. Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul E. Thorpe Toll Free : 1-888-OSS-ASN1 OSS Nokalva International: 1-732-302-0750 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tech Support : 1-732-302-9669 http://www.oss.com Fax : 1-732-302-0023
