[Om3] Content of CDName and other texts: with or w/o whitespace?

[James Davenport]

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Christoph LANGE wrote:
>   finally finishing the support for importing OpenMath CDs into SWiM, I
> realised that leading and trailing whitespace is used for the content of
> the Name, CDName, and other elements, and that this is apparently valid
> w.r.t. the
> Relax NG Schema. However, I think it makes it quite hard to process CDs
> automatically, as the programmer (me in this case) always has to
> remember that there can be whitespace and thus must wrap any reference
> to the content of such an element into some function like
> normalize-space() in XPath or trim()
> in many other languages. Is this intended, to make the CD XML source
> code more readable, or should we rather do away with it?

I'm not a native XML-speaker, so I'll not comment directly.
But it is clear that we do NOT want white space IN Cd names as such:
whether it's frobidden or trim(med) does not deeply concern me.

James