On 8/2/07, Peter Saint-Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What specifically breaks? Does it depend on which characters would be
> allowed in nodeprep2? I agree that / and @ are problematic, but the
> characters " & ' < > seem less so. But I may be missing something.
I believe this section was a left over from the original pre-rfc
specification which was attempting to fit a JID into standardized URI
notation, which specifically explains allowable characters, reserved
characters, and characters which must be escaped. See rfc 2396. The
section which deals with those characters is:
====
The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are
excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
text documents and protocol fields. The character "#" is excluded
because it is used to delimit a URI from a fragment identifier in URI
references (Section 4). The percent character "%" is excluded because
it is used for the encoding of escaped characters.
delims = "<" | ">" | "#" | "%" | <">
====
I'll go jump down in a hole again. :-)
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-- Thomas
