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On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 08:47, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> writes:
>
> > I thought that this should validate as xs:token whitespace handling is
> > "collapse" and leading and trailing spaces shouldn't be part of
> > lexical space from which is value converted to value space on which
> > data-type validation should operate. But .NET parser report this as
> > error. (BTW Xerces accept this without complaints.)
>
> I believe your argument is correct, and see no basis for an error in
> this case.
No basis except, of course, the name (xs:token) which IMO is very
misleading.
That's something on which I have tried to insist as much as possible in
my book about WXS (and now in the corresponding section [1] of my book
about RELAX NG): despite its name, xs:token should be used in most of
the cases where people are using xs:string.
Overusing xs:string leads to XML vocabularies which are needlessly
incoherent about how whitespaces are handled and the confusion on the
name "xs:token" (understood by so many people as a single token while
it's only a "tokenized" string) is the main reason why people keep using
xs:string instead of xs:token.
My 0.02 Euros,
Eric
[1] http://books.xmlschemata.org/relaxng/ch17-77201.html
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> ht
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