Character references pointing to carriage returns and linefeeds

Here's an ugly case:


<root xml:id='&#x0D;  p2  '/>

My understanding is that the ID attribute reported here should be 
"\n\u0020p2" (in Java parlance).

However appendix E2 of the xml:id spec says:

Parsers are required to normalize all attribute values. Normalization 
expands character references, expands entity references, and cleans up 
line end characters. Attributes of type ID are subject to additional 
normalization rules: removing leading and trailing whitespace and 
replacing sequences of spaces with a single space.

I think "removing leading and trailing whitespace" should really be 
"removing leading and trailing space characters" because in this example 
  the linefeed would not be removed by a validating parser.

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