Hi, The term "whitespace" does not appear in https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2021/NIST.IR.8366.pdf
This is in contrast to whitelist, where the more useful term is "allow list". The term whitespace originates from the fact that most newspapers are black text on white background, although the term is less useful now that darkmode is becoming so popular : ) Probably the only way to avoid directly referencing whitespace is to say "any spacing characters including space, tab or newlines, such as is described in WSP and its derivatives". I don't think there is a need to use a word other than whitespace, especially if you are citing the use of WSP or related ABNF which the reader must understand. Regards, OS On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM Murray S. Kucherawy <superu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2024, 20:24 Neil Jenkins <ne...@fastmailteam.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, at 14:50, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: >> >> Just on the question of use of "whitespace": >> I concur that it's a term of art, and that even if we were to try to >> neutralize it by referencing ABNF, ABNF also calls it whitespace (i.e., >> "WSP" and its derivatives). >> >> On the other hand, I believe there's no loss of precision or generality >> by simply calling it "space" either. >> >> >> Personally, I think this is less clear as "space" is liable to be >> interpreted as just the Space character (U+0020), rather than any whitespace >> character <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character>. So I >> would prefer to keep the current text. >> > > You could say "any space character". > > -MSK > -- ORIE STEELE Chief Technology Officer www.transmute.industries <https://transmute.industries>
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