- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:34:42 +0000
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Cc: <www-xml-schema-comments@w3.org>
"Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk> writes:
> In section 3.11.6 of XML Schema Part 1, the production rule is given:
>
> [4] NameTest ::= QName | '*' | NCName ':' '*'
>
> This creates the impression that spaces are allowed either side of the
> ":" in NCName:*, and some schema processors (e.g. Xerces) appear to
> allow such spaces.
As published, the REC doesn't allow any whitespace _at all_ in
patterns, per the XML 1.0 interpretation of EBNF.
Following a comment [1], an erratum [2] was issued clarifying that
whitespace was allowed as per XPath 1.0. This clarification does not
allow whitespace between the tokens of a NameTest.
ht
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xmlschema-rec-comments.html#pfiIdConstrWhiteSp
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xmlschema-errata#e1-6
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