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

At 5:47 PM -0500 6/7/17, Adam Roach wrote:

>  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.

That's what's in the draft now (based on your earlier suggestion).

Paul has proposed a syntax using semicolons 
instead of spaces.  If that will make the parsing 
even slightly more complicated, I'd be inclined 
to stick with the simple space-delimited list we 
have now, and if we find that we do need to add 
parameters, we introduce new attributes at that 
time.

>  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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