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Re: [Ltru] Record-Jar Format (was RE: I'm really confused by chinese in 3066bis)



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:34:26PM +0100,
 Debbie Garside <debbie at ictmarketing.co.uk> wrote 
 a message of 55 lines which said:

> 1.  Variant Table: Record 'baku1926': The comment field is more than
> 255 characters and thus is truncated.

Here, MS-Access is too restrictive. RFC 4646 is not very talkative
about registry field sizes (unlike the issue of language tag size,
which is discussed at length). But the RFC says in 3.1:

   The content of this field [Comments] is not
   restricted, except by the need to register the information, the
   suitability of the request, and by reasonable practical size
   limitations.

255 seems quite low. Anyway, none of the two proposed XML schemas set
a limit on the size of fields (it would not be possible in DTD,
anyway).

> 2.   In LSR-2.xml Most (not all) of the fields seem to have a preceding
> space for some reason which will make it difficult to create search
> routines.

IMHO, a bug in the awk script. The way I read RFC 4646 3.1:

   record     = 1*( field-name *SP ":" *SP field-body CRLF )

Leading spaces at the beginning of a field body (*SP) should not be
significant. Frank?
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