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Bug 2189 - R-196: Add health warning on use of whitespace facet on elements (structure)
Summary: R-196: Add health warning on use of whitespace facet on elements (structure)
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: XML Schema
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Structures: XSD Part 1 (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0 only
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
QA Contact: XML Schema comments list
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Keywords: decided
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Reported: 2005-09-14 18:52 UTC by Sandy Gao
Modified: 2007-03-29 18:48 UTC (History)
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Description Sandy Gao 2005-09-14 18:52:53 UTC 
This was formerly RQ-127.

We request that a health warning be added at the most appropriate place in the 
XML Schema spec, to warn schema users against specifying whiteSpace="replace" 
or "collapse" on elements (and even attributes) meant to contain anything but 
highly constrained text such as lists, as it will not do what they think 
("unexpected"!) and will in fact prevent later processing steps from doing the 
Right Thing. 

See (member-only link)
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-i18n-wg/2001Oct/0032.html
Comment 1 Sandy Gao 2005-09-14 18:53:07 UTC 
Erratum text
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-xml-schema-ig/2003Apr/0269.html
reviewed and approved at the May 2 telecon. To be incorporated into post 2E 
errata doc.