RE: xmlsch-02 whitespace facet discussion

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jeremy Carroll [mailto:jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
> Sent: 09 May, 2003 16:22
> To: Stickler Patrick (NMP/Tampere); jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com;
> w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> Subject: RE: xmlsch-02 whitespace facet discussion
> 
> 
> 
> > >
> > > No it doesn't entail at all.
> > >
> > > " 3 " is not an integer but "3" is. So the second graph is
> > > not a consequence
> > > of the first, because the whitespace makes a difference.
> > >
> > > (I frankly haven't a clue what the second graph means - I
> > > promised Brian I
> > > would read the semantics editors draft before the telecon, so
> > > I might know
> > > by then).
> >
> > Hmmm....
> >
> > This is an interesting entailment.
> >
> > I think the key question is whether XML Schema whitespace processing
> > is part of the XML Schema specific interpretation of typed literals
> > having XSD datatypes.
> >
> > You are saying that it is not. Is there anything from the XML Schema
> > specs or the XML Schema WG that support that?
> >
> > IMO, it's really for the XML Schema folks to say whether "  3  "
> > is or is not an acceptable lexical representation when interpreted
> > in terms of the datatype xsd:int.
> >
> > It might be.
> >
> > My presumption was that it would be.
> >
> > If there is some clear evidence showing that my presumption is
> > incorrect, I'd like to know it.
> 
> 
> We might not be ready to close this one.
> 
> The XML Schema rec is clear (sort of like the RDF working 
> drafts :) that
> whitespace normalization is performed in part 1, but precisely which
> processing is specified in part 2.
> 
> i.e. the processing chain is:
> 
> input-text => entity substitution => whitespace normalization 
> => [[Lexical
> Form]] => lexical-to-value mapping => value
> 
> 
> If you look at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal
> 
> for example, the defn of lexical space does not include the 
> leading and
> trailing blanks.
> 
> Whitespace normalization is specified in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/#section-Wh
> ite-Space-Norm
> alization-during-Validation
>
> Jeremy
>

OK. I'm sufficiently convinced.

Patrick

Received on Friday, 9 May 2003 09:26:06 UTC