Robert Sayre wrote: > For me, the most disturbing aspect of this debate is that any > resolution will provide very, very little interoperability gain. URIs, > like XML Elements, cannot begin or end with whitespace. I don't > believe it's worth mentioning in the spec, and I think we're off in > the weeds. That said, I certainly wouldn't object to any text warning > people not to do it, or explicitly mentioning that you have to call > the equivalent of String.trim().
I respectfully disagree. After a day's worth of posting, no-one here has been able to present a compelling argument one way or another as to whether <atom:id> urn:example.org <atom:id> is illegal and if so, how software should behave in the light of that. Mentioning things like this the why Atom has to exist at all, imvho. cheers Bill
