Re: cdata attribute value normalization in schema?

Bryan Rasmussen writes:

> How do I represent an Attribute of being type CDATA so that the further
> normalization represented here 
> "øåØåIf the attribute type is not CDATA, then the XML processor MUST further
> process the normalized attribute value by discarding any leading and
> trailing space (#x20) characters, and by replacing sequences of space (#x20)
> characters by a single space (#x20) character.
> " is not done? Should I use whiteSpace facet replace since that corresponds
> to the rest of the algorithm?
> If so, how is this okay by the xml spec as the spec says that this
> normalization must be done prior to being passed to validation? 

See the documentation of whitespace processing [1] -- you can choose
whatever you like for your simple type definitions as long as they're
derived from xs:string.

W3C XML Schema's whitespace normalization is independent of XML's and
happens logically after it.

ht

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#d0e1654
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