RE: spaces in value fields

You originally asked about decimal and date values.  If you eliminated
the spaces in your example, these would be legal.  The general case
needs a great deal more explanation.  Please see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/ section 3.1.4.
Ashok

 -----Original Message----- 
 From: Penick, Thomas 
 Sent: Thu 9/20/2001 11:41 AM 
 To: Ashok Malhotra; www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org 
 Cc: Miller, Scott 
 Subject: 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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