[VCARDDAV] Clarification of property value data type "component"?

Stefan Ganzer <steven.ganzer@gmail.com> Fri, 12 October 2012 15:42 UTC

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Subject: [VCARDDAV] Clarification of property value data type "component"?
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Hello,

I am wondering if the property value data type "component" should not be
defined analogous to "text", i.e.

	COMPONENT-CHAR = "\\" / "\," / "\;" / "\n" / WSP / NON-ASCII
               / %x21-2B / %x2D-3A / %x3C-5B / %x5D-7E
	   ; Backslashes, commas, semicolons, and newlines must be encoded.

	component = *COMPONENT-CHAR

I stumbled upon this when I was looking at the ORG-property and wondered
whether an empty property (ORG:) would be valid. As the N- and
ADR-properties allow missing component values, and FN may be empty, too,
I think the same is true
for ORG, though. The above definition would clarify this.

Yours Sincerely

Stefan