- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:53:36 +0200
- To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>, public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Kay, Michael wrote: > > I'm not sure if you are trying to say that this is not > clearly stated, > > or if you are saying that you disagree with the decision we > have made. > > Both. But you know what? Never mind. > > I am just trying to figure out whether an implementation is > allowed to have non-XML characters in text nodes, and whether > a function (any function) can return non-XML characters in a > "string"-type object. I'd like to think that a "string", > since it *is*, by definition, an xs:string, has no such > leeway, but apparently in XSLT-land the rules are relaxed. We should perhaps be clearer. It IS an error to return such a string. You can't predict what will happen if you do it. You can't even be sure of getting a decent error message. Michael Kay
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