Wouter, > This reads a bit awkward. I would do: > > s/save that:/except as explained below/
Possibly a British English thing. Will fix. >> If one or more queries are sent, then the server MUST return >> those metadata contexts that are available to the client to >> select on the given export with `NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT`, >> and which match one or more of the queries given. The >> support of wildcarding within the leaf-name portion of >> the query string is dependent upon the namespace. >> >> In either case, however, for any given namespace the >> server MAY, instead of exhaustively listing every >> matching context available to select (or every context >> available to select where no query is given), send >> sufficient context records back to allow a client with >> knowledge of the namespace to select any context. Each >> namespace returned MUST still satisfy the rules for >> namespaces (i.e. they must begin with the relevant >> namespace, followed by a colon, then printable non-whitespace >> UTF-8 characters, > > Why restrict to non-whitespace characters? (printable makes sense...) Because the namespaces and leaf-names are already restricted to non-whitespace characters. I thought having tabs, line feeds, returns, em-space, en-space etc. was not particularly useful. I could be persuaded to relent re spaces. -- Alex Bligh
