Stripping empty lines around <sourcecode content appears to be an undocumented feature

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Stripping empty lines around <sourcecode content appears to be an undocumented feature #986

Open cabo opened 1 year ago

cabo commented 1 year ago

Describe the issue

https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/5544#issuecomment-1527820503

Note that this feature probably cannot be removed; it needs to be documented instead.

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cabo commented 1 year ago

Note that RFC 8792, Section 9.4, has a strong dependency on the newline stripping, opting for the newline-as-separator model (i.e., always stripping the last newline). Since newline-as-terminator is the prevailing model, this is another bug, this time in RFC 8792.