The parameter-tag and parameter-sequence may be omitted if the operation
has no parameters. The attribute-tag and attribute-sequence may be
omitted if the operation has no attributes or it may be replicated for
an operation that contains attributes for multiple objects. The data-tag
is present even when the data is omitted.
I believe that the mandatory data-tag makes it easier to decode because
with the mandatory tag, there is only a check of the tag in each cycle.
Without a mandatory data-tag, there would have to be a check for both
some end-of data index and the contents of the next tag.
Bob Herriot
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> From Bob's text:
>
> 1.1 Syntax of Encoding
>
> The encoding consists of:
>
> . version
> . operation (for a request) or status (for a response)
> . parameter-tag
> . parameter-sequence
> . attribute-tag
> . attribute-sequence
> . data-tag
> . data (absent for some operations)
>
> Bob<
>
> I thought that the discussion in yesterday's phone conference indicated
> that the attribute sequence could also be omitted. Also, do we require the
> attribute-tag and data-tag to always be present even if the
> attribute-sequence or data are empty?
>
> Carl-Uno
>
>
> Carl-Uno Manros
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