Re: [VCARDDAV] ORG syntax issue?

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Thu, 22 April 2010 23:36 UTC

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From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
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Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] ORG syntax issue?
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Hi Simon,

--On April 22, 2010 7:18:16 PM -0400 Simon Perreault 
<simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> wrote:

>> Note that the example has "\,", but that is not a valid "component"
>> syntax element. I think we have to add "\," to the ABNF. This is
>> actually a little awkward in that there is no special meaning to a
>> single unquoted "," as opposed to the "list-component" syntax element
>> which uses "," as a delimiter.
>
> I think it's the example that's wrong. There is no reason why the comma
> should be quoted.

Well the trouble is 2426 used the same example and I have seen vcard 
generators produce "\," in ORG too. So do we care about backwards 
compatibility for this property syntax?

-- 
Cyrus Daboo