On Mar 10, Michel Drescher loaded a tape reading:
6) ch. 5.4.6 Arguments / ch. 5.4.7 Argument element The definition and the examples are inconsistent. The example to start Apache2 on a Windows box indicates that empty jsdl:Argument elements are allowed, but the definition does not mention this at all. Proposal: Extend the definition of jsdl:Argument to allow empty elements, as long as at least one jsdl:Argument element is non-empty. This relaxes a bit the constraints on a JSDL document creator, but increases a bit more the parsing and validation burden on the JSDL document recipient. I can live with that.
I do not understand this. Empty strings are valid arguments on many platforms, so no collapsing should be possible. In other words: <Arguments> <Argument>arg1</Argument> </Arguments> and <Arguments> <Argument>arg1</Argument> <Argument></Argument> <Argument/> </Arguments> can not be considered equivalent! The first corresponds to a shell syntax like: some-program "arg1" while the second is: some-program "arg1" "" "" karl -- Karl Czajkowski karlcz@univa.com