On 02/08/2005 14:11, Graham wrote:
I (and probably others) have already put code out into the wild in the assumption there is no whitespace. As I said before, it's too late for a solution that changes the meaning of the spec.
Does your code reject the content of atom:id if it doesn't conform to the IRI spec? i.e. does it flag the feed as invalid. If so, then at least it mitigates the problem by reducing the number of feeds that will inadvertently include whitespace.
If not, and you're treating the element content as opaque content, then you're going to be inadvertently processing invalid feeds. I guess the primary consequence is that your users are going to get duplicate items.
Ian
