Common causes include:
-* extraneous white space (especially trailing white space)
+* extraneous whitespace (especially trailing whitespace)
* improperly encoded characters (LDAPv3 uses UTF-8 encoded Unicode)
* empty values (few syntaxes allow empty values)
prefix attached.
A configuration directive may take arguments. If so, the arguments are
-separated by white space. If an argument contains white space,
+separated by whitespace. If an argument contains whitespace,
the argument should be enclosed in double quotes {{EX:"like this"}}.
In the descriptions that follow, arguments that should be replaced
by actual text are shown in brackets {{EX:<>}}.
can be overridden by database directives.
Blank lines and comment lines beginning with a '{{EX:#}}' character
-are ignored. If a line begins with white space, it is considered a
+are ignored. If a line begins with whitespace, it is considered a
continuation of the previous line (even if the previous line is a
comment).
> ...
A configuration directive may take arguments. If so, they are
-separated by white space. If an argument contains white space,
+separated by whitespace. If an argument contains whitespace,
the argument should be enclosed in double quotes {{EX:"like this"}}. If
an argument contains a double quote or a backslash character `{{EX:\}}',
the character should be preceded by a backslash character `{{EX:\}}'.