RE: FW: Base64

All,

I found this sentence as part of annex D of XML Schema Part 1, which should
back Merlin's opinion on the question wheter XML Schema changes the XML
infoset input:

  "This specification does not require any destructive alterations
   to the input information set: all the information set contributions
   specified herein are additive."

Considering this statement, I agree with Merlin: Xerces operates in error,
if it provides the "normalized value" instead of the "initial value" for
simple types in its DOM API.

> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#PSVI_contributions
> (Contributions to the Post-Schema-Validation Infoset)
>
> This states that schema-normalized values contribute to the PSVI.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#key-nv
>
> [Definition:]  The normalized value of an element or attribute information
> item is an initial value whose white space, if any, has been normalized
> according to the value of the whiteSpace facet of the simple type
> definition
> used in its validation:
>
> Reading this, I don't think that the regular infoset, as exposed
> by DOM, should be modified. We might be well served by asking a
> schema person.

Liebe Gruesse/Regards,
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