Re: [xml-dev] Namespaces, Xml Schema Whitespace normalization, xs:anyURI,and URILiterals in XPath 2.0

[Jeff Rafter <lists@jeffrafter.com>]

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> I thought that this rule from appendix E, 
> together with the 'represent a space with %20' 
> rule could be put together as: 
> 
> seen that spaces are not allowed,
> if you find a space just ignore it if you think
> that this is allowed for your context,
> otherwise is a syntax error. 

The way I was reading this boiled down to: If there is a space in a URI 
it is illegal. Spaces are not permitted. If there is /visual/ whitespace 
as part of a word-wrapping algorithm, this should not be treated as a 
space character because we know that spaces are not allowed-- it is 
purely a visual artifact.

The RFC is saying that you can display a URI with presentational 
whitespace, but even when you do, don't count it as actual 
lexical/informational whitespace because that is explicitly disallowed.

I could be way off though....

Cheers,
Jeff Rafter