Tom Moog <tmoog@sarvega.com> writes: > In 3.1.4 of Structures, it states that comments and pi are ignored > when constructing the content of an element. This does not appear > to depend on whether the content is simple or complex. Thus > > <number>1<!-- this is a comment -->2</number> > > is the same as <number>12</number> for purposes of validation. That's what the REC says, yes. > This seems rather counter-intuitive. It also conflicts with the > way xslt and other xml processors handle content - they would > treat the "1" and the "2" as separate text items. XML Schema doesn't have a notion of 'text item', for better or worse. > Do I correctly understand the document, or did I miss something ? I think you understand it correctly. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2002, 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/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]Received on Friday, 4 October 2002 06:21:20 GMT
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