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Re: [Json] Leading and trailing whitespace

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 10 June 2013 22:04 UTC

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<no hat>

On Jun 10, 2013, at 2:54 PM, "Jim Schaad" <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:

> The current specification allows for arbitrary whitespace to occur before
> and after an array or object.  I would like to know if this is what was
> intended to begin with or not.

Why is the "intention" important?

> There are two different things that could be done about this (one of which
> would potentially be necessary if you allowed all values in a JSON-text.

Why should something "be done about this"? I think you are leading into canonicalization, but that's not part of RFC 4627, so introducing it seems like a pretty massive change.

Having said that, knowing your intention would be useful here.

--Paul Hoffman

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