- From: Dave Peterson <davep@iit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:47:47 -0400
- To: Dieter Guthmann <mailing-deg@bup-nbg.de>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:29:16 -0000, Michael Kay wrote (to xmlschema-dev): >The specification is a little bit less formal than one might like: >and I guess one could argue for an interpretation that says a character >can't be a "leading #x20" unless it is followed by something - but it seems >a bit far-fetched to me. I think Liquid XML Studio is out on a limb here. >But I've raised bug 6695 to propose a clarification. The XSD WG has eliminated the words 'leading' and 'trailing'; the revised text is: >collapse: > After the processing implied by replace, contiguous sequences of #x20's are >collapsed to a single #x20, and any #x20 at the start or end of the string is >then removed. The result of collapsing a string consisting solely of whitespace is the empty string, and this wording is intended to make that more obvious. -- Dave Peterson SGMLWorks! davep@iit.edu
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