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Re: [Json] Leading and trailing whitespace

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 11 June 2013 16:06 UTC

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On Jun 10, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> On Jun 11, 2013, at 05:42, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do implementations that allow any value type at the top-level allow
>> leading and/or trailing whitespace?
> 
> Yes.  E.g.,
> 
>>> JSON.parse("\r\n \t 27 \r\n \t", quirks_mode: true)
> => 27
> 
> (quirks_mode is the flag that switches on the non-coforming acceptance of any "value".)
> 
>> *Should* they?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> (If you are not convinced from first principles: people have argued you can do streaming by adding whitespace, and that required being allowed to add whitespace :-)
> 
> So we will have to add a production:
> 
> 	JSON-value = ws value ws
> 
> That didn't seem too hard.

Question: are you saying we should do that even if we don't allow all values at the top level, or only if we add them at the top level?

--Paul Hoffman

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