3.2.1. Alternate Text Representation

Parameter Name

ALTREP

Purpose

To specify an alternate text representation for the property value.

Format Definition

This property parameter is defined by the following notation:

  altrepparam = "ALTREP" "=" DQUOTE uri DQUOTE

Description

This parameter specifies a URI that points to an alternate representation for a textual property value. A property specifying this parameter MUST also include a value that reflects the default representation of the text value. The URI parameter value MUST be specified in a quoted-string.

Note: While there is no restriction imposed on the URI schemes allowed for this parameter, Content Identifier (CID) [RFC2392], HTTP [RFC2616], and HTTPS [RFC2818] are the URI schemes most commonly used by current implementations.

Example

 DESCRIPTION;ALTREP="CID:part3.msg.970415T083000@example.com":
  Project XYZ Review Meeting will include the following agenda
   items: (a) Market Overview\, (b) Finances\, (c) Project Man
  agement

The "ALTREP" property parameter value might point to a "text/html" content portion.

 Content-Type:text/html
 Content-Id:

 
   
    
   
   
     

       Project XYZ Review Meeting will include
       the following agenda items:
       
    
         
  1. Market Overview
    2. 
         
  2. Finances
    3. 
         
  3. Project Management
    4.

This document was automatically converted to XHTML using an RFC to HTML converter with the original text document at the Internet Engineering Task Force web site at ietf.org .  The original text document should be referred to if there are any errors or discrepancies found in this document.

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