<div dir="ltr">Sorry if this is too silly to be considered an issue, but I noticed something slightly annoying and thought I'd bring it up. But maybe the ship has sailed.<div><br></div><div>TLDR: Why are blank lines allowed in properties files? It seems like it'd be a fair bit simpler if they weren't, and I'm not sure what utility they provide given that they must be ignored.<br><div><br></div><div>In 4.4.1 The properties file it is said:</div><div><br></div><div>Blank lines must be ignored.</div><div><br></div><div>Then in 5.2 HiPS list:</div><div><br></div><div>The format of this list is derived from the HiPS properties file associated to
each HiPS. It is an UTF-8 file containing a collection of records (key1 =
property1\nkey1 = property2...) that are separated by blank lines and have the
same syntax and vocabulary as the HiPS properties file.<br></div><div><br></div><div>and then</div><div><br></div><div>In practice: a HiPS list may be easily generated as the concatenation of the
properties files of all distributed HiPS, with blank line separators<br></div><div><br></div><div>and then a footnote:</div><div><br></div><div>In this case, the possible blank lines inside a properties file must be removed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for dealing with my silliness.</div></div><div>Christine</div></div>