[jsdl-wg] jsdl specification 0.9.3. (draft 14)

[Michel Drescher]

On 10 Mar 2005, at 12:46, Karl Czajkowski wrote:

> On Mar 10, Michel Drescher loaded a tape reading:
>
>> [...]
>
> 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,

do you have examples for me? I never saw programs that take empty 
command line arguments, so I did not consider this being a use case at 
all.

Cheers,
Michel