[Syntaxes] says: > 5.2 Matching Rule Definitions > When evaluating the caseExactIA5Match, caseIgnoreIA5Match, (...) > leading and trailing whitespace is ignored except that a string consisting of only whitespace is treated as a single space. If leading whitespace were ignored in a space-only string, it would be treated as the invalid string "", so the filter would evaluate to undefined. -- Hallvard