Wherefore no HTAB in literal text strings in ABNF

Sean Leonard <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Aug 2016 18:34:56 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Knowledgeable ABNF Folks:

I have been working with RFC 5234 lately. What is the rationale (or what are the rationales) for including SP %d32 but excluding HTAB %d9 in char-val, aka the literal text string? I am sure that this decision was not an oversight.

It may be appreciated that the comment production is defined as WSP, which includes HTAB.

Regards,

Sean
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