RE: spaces in value fields

A blanket statement of "spaces are not allowed in simple values" would
eliminate possibilities like:

<stringValue>String Value 1</stringValue> 


Is this invalid also?


Thanks,
Tom




-----Original Message-----
From: Ashok Malhotra [mailto:ashokma@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:37 PM
To: Penick, Thomas; www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org
Cc: Miller, Scott
Subject: RE: spaces in value fields


You asked" 
"Are spaces valid in value fields?"
I do not believe spaces are allowed in simple values.
Ashok

 -----Original Message----- 
 From: Penick, Thomas 
 Sent: Thu 9/20/2001 10:40 AM 
 To: 'www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org' 
 Cc: Miller, Scott 
 Subject: FW: spaces in value fields
 
 
 We've encountered a problem that we believe is due to our XML
files having spaces in the value fields.  Example:
 <doubleValue>1.0</doubleValue> 
 as opposed to:
 <doubleValue>   1.0   </doubleValue> 
  
 and
  
 <dateValue>2000-03-31T13:20:00.000Z</dateValue> 
 vs.
 <dateValue> 2000-03-31T13:20:00.000Z </dateValue> 
  
 The parser throws an exception because it thinks the data is
invalid.  For the above example it would think the data was actually: 
  
 .0.0 
  
  for the doubleValue
  
 and
  
 000-03-31T13:20:00.000ZZ
  
 for the date value
   
  
 Note that it dropped the first character and added one to the
end.  This is consistent.
  
 We have verified that we can parse data that previously caused
an exception by restarting the parse.  It just seems that after time the
spaces eventually cause an exception.
  
 We are using Apache Xerces 1.4.3 on Win2k.
  
 Are spaces valid in value fields?
  
  
  
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Received on Thursday, 20 September 2001 14:42:24 UTC