xml-dev - xml:space in nested elements

[Jeff Stock <jeff.stock@contractor.openwave.com>]

Please consider the following DTD fragment

<!ELEMENT foo (bar)*>
<!ATTLIST foo
 xml:space CDATA #FIXED "preserve"
>
<!ELEMENT bar (goo)*>
<!ELEMENT goo EMPTY>

and the following document fragment

<foo>
    <bar>
        <goo/>
    </bar>
</foo>

Without the xml:space attribute on element <foo>, this
would be a valid XML document. However, the presence
of the xml:space='preserve' attribute on the element
<foo> would seem to imply that element <bar> is now
going to have #PCDATA is its content, which is not
allowed by the DTD. So a validating XML parser must
reject the above document fragment as invalid.

Is this the correct conclusion to draw?

Thanks
Jeff