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Re: [Slim] Collapse attribute syntax to one line in draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Wed, 07 June 2017 22:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Slim] Collapse attribute syntax to one line in draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language
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On 6/1/17 9:33 AM, Gunnar Hellström wrote:
> Maybe the main question is: Will our own one-line syntax really be 
> less complex to parse than the Accept-Language syntax that we might be 
> able to find ready library routines for?
> Adam Roach had views on complexity to parse different solutions. Maybe 
> you, Adam can have a view on this?


As long as it is a space-delimited list of tokens, it should be trivial. 
That's a pretty common SDP pattern.

The prospect of bolting a parser from some other protocol (e.g. 
Accept-Language) onto an SDP parsing library seems like it would be 
quite complex. The libraries I've worked with would almost certainly 
find it easier to write such a parser from scratch.

/a

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