Paul Hoffman wrote:
> 
> At 7:37 PM -0400 8/2/05, Robert Sayre wrote:
> 
>> One way of saying this would be "Atom Processors MAY ignore leading
>> and trailing whitespace in _____________."
> 
> 
> That works for me. Another idea is "Atom Processors MAY ignore leading
> and/or trailing whitespace in elements whose content does not allow
> leading and/or trailing whitespace, such as IRIs and ________."

I don't understand the benefits of MAY. It sounds like this to me:
"whitespace is not allowed in certain elements, but you may ignore that
directive by trimming the content".

cheers
Bill

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