Re: A question for RDF parser implementers - whitespace

/ Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> was heard to say:
| At 07:42 09/07/04 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
|>I think if you are parsing a typed literal and you know you're parsing
|>a typed literal, you should collapse the whitespace before passing the
|>value on to down-stream applications.
|>
|>Given that the RDF spec says that whitespace is eliminated by
|>validation, I can easily imagine writing an application that assumes
|>typed values like integers and URIs won't have insignificant
|>whitespace around them.
|
| Hmmm.  Let's try a test case.
|
| Does this:
|
| <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
|           xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
|    <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.example.org/">
|       <dc:title>  The trouble with spaces   </dc:title>
|    </rdf:Description>
| </rdf:RDF>
|
| RDF-entail this:
|
| <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
|           xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
|    <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.example.org/">
|       <dc:title
| rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">  The trouble
| with spaces   </dc:title>
|    </rdf:Description>
| </rdf:RDF>
|
| I think it should, but under your suggested regime I think it would not.

Leading and trailing whitespace is significant in strings. The more
interesting test would be one that includes

     <geo:lat>  42.4   </geo:lat>

Where the datatype of geo:lat is float or double or something like
that.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM / XML Standards Architect / Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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