Casting from string inconsistency

Section 16.6 of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators states:

Casting is permitted from string and anySimpleType to any primitive 
atomic type or an atomic type derived by restriction except QName.

However, the table in section 16 shows that neither a string nor 
anySimpleType can be cast to a notation. Either the table or the 
statement in section 16.6 is wrong. I don't know which.
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