Re: A question for RDF parser implementers - whitespace

> Correct. In order to get the whitespace handling right you need to
> understand the datatype specified.
> 
> Which is impossible, in the general case, I suppose:
> 
>      <foo:bar rdf:datatype="http://example.org/XMLSchema#myFooType"
>       > 42.4 </geo:lat>
> 


What we wrote was:

http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-concepts/#section-Datatypes

[[
In [XML-SCHEMA1], white space normalization occurs during validation 
according to the value of the whiteSpace facet. The lexical-to-value 
mapping used in RDF datatyping occurs after this, so that the whiteSpace 
facet has no effect in RDF datatyping.
]]

i.e.
" 42.4 "^^xsd:decimal

is simply a datatyping error," 42.4 " is not an xsd:decimal, "42.4" is.

RDF/XML expects the whitespace validation to have been done before the 
document was written

Jeremy