[ISSUE-53] (Empty string for allowedCharacters): Empty string for allowedCharacters [MLW-LT Standard Draft] from Yves Savourel on 2012-10-07 (public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org from October 2012)

From: Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 06:12:16 -0600
To: <public-multilingualweb-lt@w3.org>
Message-ID: <assp.0627053f7a.assp.0627cfbc58.001201cda485$00c26d40$024747c0$@com>

Jirka, Pedro: Thanks for the input.

Felix: It seems no all agree that allowedCharacters="" means no character is allowed.
We can probably close this one on Monday if no has anything to add.

-ys

>> Since we don't define anything for a blank allowedCharacters,
>> I assume it means the blank pattern is evaluated and can't possibly 
>> match any character, so it means none is allowed. (which is a strange case).
>> 
>> Is it the proper interpretation?
>
> +1
>
> This is also consisten with XML Schema interpretation of the same case
> (and there seems to be Xerces bug as well).

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