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Should whitespace be allowed for use as an ID?

See original GitHub issue

I haven’t had the chance to check across platforms yet, but I bet that the id property is allowed to be whitespace across most (all?) platforms. Should it?

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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andrewleadercommented, Apr 25, 2019

I’d say reject all together, and enforce a strict Regex for ids.

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jonmillcommented, Nov 4, 2021

Whatever is shipped today is the supported scenario - we can’t break existing customers at this point

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