Enumeration facet value needs clarification

Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik@4commerce.de> writes:

> So can someone point me to the place in the spec, that explains why
> Xerces does normalize the facet's value according to the base type
> definition? I can only find the statement that the value of the facet
> needs to be valid against the base type, not that it actually _is_ of
> that type.

The following is what you want, although it's arguably misplaced,
being in the middle of the XML Representation Summary for
<enumeration>:

  "{value} *must* be in the *value space* of {base type definition}."

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