Re: Whitespace in Metalinks

[Peter Pöml]

Am 14.12.2009 um 18:44 schrieb Hampus Wessman:

I also think this is good and clear. Metalink Editor also currently
strips whitespace. With this in the standard most generators will
hopefully start generating metalinks with no extra whitespace inside
elements.


with invalid metalinks (they are invalid, after all). Most

by stripping leading and trailing whitespace).

Perhaps it is simply best not to give any recommendation on how to deal implementations will probably accept some invalid metalinks anyway (e.g.

Thanks for the comments! I now see that the currently specified way of dealing with whitespace is fine.

It would be pretty cool with a validation web site for metalinks, by the way. Something similar to http://validator.w3.org/. Anyone interested in

creating something like that? I'll be interested in doing it, but I'd

prefer to finish Metalink Editor 2.0 first (it is slowly making progress).

Ah, yes, that would be quite cool indeed!

Peter

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