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Subject: Re: NID request for publicid (draft-urn-publicid-03.txt)
Paul Grosso wrote: >>> In addition to the character set restriction, public identifiers >>> must be normalized by removing all leading and trailing whitespace >>> (the characters #x20, #xD, and #xA, in this context) and replacing >>> all remaining sequences of two or more whitespace characters with a >>> single space (#x20). >> >> Oopsie, this isn't quite what XML 1.0 says: it would leave a single >> CR, LF, or TAB alone rather than changing it to a SPACE. > > Really? I don't think so. > [snip] > What makes you think XML would leave a single CR, LF, or TAB alone? I don't. But Norm's wording in the I-D *does* say that, since he says that only strings of *two or more* whitespace characters are changed to SPACE. This means that strings with only one whitespace character are left alone. This is incorrect, hence the need for a change in wording in the I-D. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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