- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Jan 2001 08:32:46 +0000
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Cc: XML Schema Comments <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
James Clark <jjc@jclark.com> writes:
<snip/>
> t1 = "x y" [token]
> t2 = "x y" [token]
> s1 = "x y" [string]
> s2 = "x y" [string]
>
> Which t/s pairs compare equal? Do I just compare the values after
> whitespace normalization according to their respective whiteSpace
> facets, which would imply t1 != s1, which seems a bit surprising?
Yup -- t1 = t2 = s2, and s1 is left out.
Works for me -- it's a consequence of comparing in the value space,
which is what makes '0.1' = '.1' if they're both decimals, but not if
they're strings.
ht
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