[uf-dev] Proper use of value

[gabriele renzi]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Michael Kaply <mkaply at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> OK, how about this.
>
>  When retrieving individual values from the documenting if there is any
> whitespace, it is collapsed into one space, and leading and trailing white
> space is NOT removed.
>
>  After the values have been concatenated to create the final value, if there
> is any whitespace, it is collapsed into one space, and leading and trailing
> whitespace IS removed.


Isn't the first pass of removing multiple spaces implicit in the second pass?
Is it different from just saying
* concat all values
* collapse whitespaces
* trim
 ?

anyway my modest opinion as an incompetent who joined this list just
few days ago is that this sound correct :)