OWS = <OWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>

delta-seconds = <delta-seconds; see [RFC7234], Section 1.2.1>

the ABNF in this section is

operating on groups of bits. The length of each group of bits is

indicated in a comment. When encoded on the wire, the most

significant bit is the leftmost in the ABNF

The base framing protocol is formally defined by the following ABNF

[RFC5234]. It is important to note that the representation of this

data is binary, not ASCII characters. As such, a field with a length

of 1 bit that takes values %x0 / %x1 is represented as a single bit

whose value is 0 or 1, not a full byte (octet) that stands for the

characters "0" or "1" in the ASCII encoding. A field with a length

of 4 bits with values between %x0-F again is represented by 4 bits,

again NOT by an ASCII character or full byte (octet) with these

values. [RFC5234] does not specify a character encoding: "Rules

resolve into a string of terminal values, sometimes called

characters. In ABNF, a character is merely a non-negative integer.

In certain contexts, a specific mapping (encoding) of values into a

character set (such as ASCII) will be specified." Here, the

specified encoding is a binary encoding where each terminal value is

encoded in the specified number of bits, which varies for each field.

<Handle> = <NamingAuthority> "/" <LocalName>

<NamingAuthority> = *(<NamingAuthority> ".") <NAsegment>

(Note that the ABNF above is defined in terms of Unicode code points

([UNICODE5]); when a query is transmitted as an XML document over

WebDAV, these characters are typically encoded in UTF-8 or UTF-16.)