Re: NID request for publicid (draft-urn-publicid-03.txt)

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

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.

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