On 8/2/05, Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2 Aug 2005, at 9:07 pm, Robert Sayre wrote: > > > For me, the most disturbing aspect of this debate is that any > > resolution will provide very, very little interoperability gain. > > Agreed. All we need to do is decide one way or the other what the > spec should say.
Right. This is not a big deal. Since everyone but me seems to think it needs fixing, let's do so. > > 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(). > > Recommending the former would draw attention to the issue and perhaps > encourage the latter. (Or make both explicit, with SHOULD and MAY). One way of saying this would be "Atom Processors MAY ignore leading and trailing whitespace in _____________." That is, no existing software is buggy, but if you want to be sure your document is processed accurately, you should trim the space yourself. Robert Sayre
