In Section 2, paragraph 5, Both kinds of Atom Documents are specified in terms of the XML Information Set, serialised as XML 1.0 [W3C.REC-xml-20040204] and identified with the "application/atom+xml" media type. Atom Documents MUST be well-formed XML. This specification does not define a DTD for Atom Documents, and hence does not require them to be valid (in the sense used by XML).
append one of the following: 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 give a big +1 to either option. Robert Sayre
