From: Clark C . E. <cc...@cl...> - 2001-05-19 18:43:02
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Ok. I just took a walk (to fetch more coffee) and I like your quoted string proposal Brian. Although I do think that the " character has to be escaped. I also like your proposal since it works for key values as well and this was an open item on my list. On the other hand, during the walk, I was thinking about this pathalogic case: key: this is a double spaced paragraph that cannot be folded Interstingly enough, I went through the RFC822 once more (the next day) and the behavior of this pathalogic case in an "unstructured field" is ambiguous... on one hand folding is allowed where ever there is whitespace and on the other, trailing whitespace is snipped. So, unless I have further objection, I'm going to move back to the "simpler" version of whitespace folding found in HTML and the structured fields of RFC 822. Thus, any sequence of one or more whitespace characters is folded by the parser into a single space, forcing \n, \t and \ escaping for explicit whitespace. This rule holds for "quoted strings" => "quoted strings" as well as unquoted strings. This rule is suspended for block scalars. Best, Clark |