Re: [Cbor] Combination tags and CBOR Packed

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 28 August 2020 22:39 UTC

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On 2020-08-29, at 00:33, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it legal to stack up packing tags into a single item?   Is
> 6.229(6.232(simple(1)) legal and does it do what I would expect it to do.
> Specifically it would concatenate three different value that are extracted
> from the packing tables.

Yes.

(This has approximately the same complexity as an indefinite length string with three components.)

(In diagnostic notation, you don’t write the “6.” — that is for CDDL “#6.”....
Apologies for this discontinuity.)

Grüße, Carsten