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
