Re: Two Proposed Resolutions for whitespace handling.

[James Aylett <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 02:04:03PM -0400, Robert Sayre wrote:

> 1.) Atom processors MAY consider leading and trailing whitespace in
> element and attribute values to be significant.
> 
> 2.) In attribute values and elements containing text, leading and
> trailing whitespace is considered significant.

I'm in favour of the approach. I'd prefer #2, because I think it's
better to spell out that publishers have to be careful about
whitespace. This is true with #1 (since some Atom processors will
consider whitespace significant), after all.

James

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