[Playlist] CDATA in URL sections?

[Sebastian Pipping]

Lucas Gonze wrote:
> Here's the situation I'm thinking of:
> <location>
>    http://example.com
> </location>
> 
> That's legal, but the URL is invalid until you trim off the leading and
> trailing whitespace.

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That's confusing me. Shouldn't either the URL be valid
because whitespace is ignored or the whole location
element be invalid since the body contains more than
just an URI?
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> [..] The
> party generating XSPF should just not let whitespace get into these
> elements.

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So whitespace by default is significant?
What I read about whitespace in XML still didn't
get my head clear on that.



Sebastian