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Re: A question for RDF parser implementers - whitespace

From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:18:34 +0100
Message-ID: <1089188314.40ebb1dae480e@82.195.128.192>
To: RDF Interest group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>

Quoting Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>:

My inclination is to pass 
> the original literal, with whitespace intact, and allow the subsequent 
> datatype processing to treat it with the same effect as if the whiteSpace 
> had been eliminated by schema validation.  For this purpose, the whitespace 
> facet is implicitly part of the datatype.

Anything that is trying to obtain some representation of the value of the
datatype would have to be prepared to do this whitespace removal AFAICS, so it
seems reasonable.

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Jon Hanna
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