Hi,a discussion how whitespace should be treated came up on the apps- discuss list [*].
Short summary:Whitespace matters in all of Metalink's XML elements, and MUST not be ignored; it's part of their content. This also implies a caveat for generators to make sure that some XML library that's used doesn't add whitespace around values by default. (The exmples in the Internet Draft need to be fixed to match this. This affects date fields and IRIs (URLs).) However, a more relaxed scheme that would strip trailing and leading whitespace has been suggested:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg01189.html I'm pondering on this, and would love to hear some opinions... Peter [*] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/apps-discuss
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