This is a bit tricky, but the bottom line is straightforward -- your documents are fine, the parser has a problem. Full story: ' 3.5' is not in the lexical space of the 'double' builtin primitive datatype. _However_ both <foo> 3.5</foo> and <baz f=' 3.5'/> _are_ XML Schema-valid if <foo> and 'f' are declared as xs:double. Why? Because all non-string datatypes by definition have the 'collapse' value for their 'whitespace' facet, which means that parsers must _inter alia_ strip leading and trailing whitespace from the input to _construct_ the candidate lexical space string. So in both those cases, the string to be considered is '3.5', which is fine. Hope this helps ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2001, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/Received on Friday, 21 September 2001 05:03:16 GMT
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