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author | Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org> | 2017-03-05 05:49:02 +0000 |
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committer | Luke Dashjr <luke-jr+git@utopios.org> | 2017-03-05 05:49:02 +0000 |
commit | ee90b8c525311a354257ef03cd8f5bfa7ed4e751 (patch) | |
tree | 256e1b5f6a3461924a458c6d6b71681ba06c28b7 | |
parent | f33738655061a0f4a8949ca018b53994ace1a1c1 (diff) | |
download | bips-ee90b8c525311a354257ef03cd8f5bfa7ed4e751.tar.xz |
bip-xchgrate: Drop HTML longdesc
-rw-r--r-- | bip-xchgrate.mediawiki | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/bip-xchgrate.mediawiki b/bip-xchgrate.mediawiki index 86f7cfc..6d79b4c 100644 --- a/bip-xchgrate.mediawiki +++ b/bip-xchgrate.mediawiki @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Each currency-pair will receive a separate result, a JSON Object, with the follo * ''quote'' - The currency code for the quote currency. * ''base'' - The currency code for the base currency. * ''desc'' - Optional description. For example, it could be "Based on Florida BTM prices." or any other short String that provides information useful to the user. SHOULD be shorter than 45 characters. -* ''longdesc'' - Optional description, but may be longer and formatted using HTML. +* ''longdesc'' - Optional description, but may be longer and include newlines. * ''symbol'' - An Array of prefix and suffix for the quote currency. Each may be either a fixed String, an Array of two Strings (negative and positive), or null. Any positive or negative symbols must be included in this prefix/suffix; it MUST NOT be implied otherwise. * ''digits'' - The type of digits to use for the quote currency's numbers. "arabic" should be used for common 0-9 digits. * ''grouping'' - An Array alternating between Numbers representing a series of digits, and Strings used as delimiters. If terminated by a zero, the final grouping is to be repeated continually. For example, the common US locale thousands grouping would be <code>[3, ",", 0]</code> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Why are multiple results separated by a line-feed rather than using a JSON Array What if long descriptions require line and paragraph breaks? -* Long descriptions support HTML, which has entities for paragraphs and line breaks that do not require literal line-feeds in the data. +* Clients should word-wrap long lines, and JSON escapes newlines as "\n" which can be used doubly ("\n\n") for paragraph breaks. ==Backwards compatibility== |