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The Structures spec should be modified so as not to require the production of the canonical form of any simple value; any legal lexical form for that value should be accepted instead. For more details and background read the entry in the requirements list and the materials linked from there. At the ftf meeting of August 2005, the Working Group requested that the editors provide wording for this requirement for consideration at our telcon of 2 September.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1849 ***