Re: [Json] Proposal: JSON text sequence MIME type and Proposed Standard

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 12 March 2014 04:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposal: JSON text sequence MIME type and Proposed Standard
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Manger, James
<James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> wrote:
> You don't quite guarantee interop with "encoders MAY use other whitespace" and "parsers SHOULD be able to handle other whitespace".
>
> The spec needs to say: either "encoders MUST use a newline separator"; or "decoders MUST be able to handle any whitespace (including none in the unambiguous cases)".

Right you are.  I'll go with the latter.

Nico
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