Sam Ruby wrote:

> A note that Atom processors may consider leading and trailing space as
> significant in attribute and element values would be enough to alert
> people to the interoperability issues.

But it wouldn't cater for them. That note would need to be a MUST to be
effective.

> Disallowing leading and trailing whitespace in IRI references (including
> the isegment-nz-nc production), MIME media types, language tags,
> lengths, addr-spec, and date-time productions would lead to improved
> interoperability.
> 
> I'm fine with either.

My best guess is that given the choice to either reject a feed or call
trim(), people will call trim(). But some clarity either way would be
welcome and would need to be presented as a general processing
directive, and not just specific to the element we're talking about.

cheers
Bill


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