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QT approved comment The entry for Base64Binary states that the length facet refers to the number of octets in the value (not the number of characters in the lexical representation). There seems to be no corresponding statement for hexBinary.
A sentence at the end of the sole paragraph in each of 3.3.16.1 and 3.3.17.1 is added: The length of a value is the number of octets. In 3.3.17.3, the paragraph that begins "The length of a base64Binary value is the number of octets it contains. This may be calculated..." is changed to read "The length of a base64Binary value may be calculated..."
The change proposed above was approved by the WG in its call of 1 December 2006. It is now reflected in the status quo version of the Datatypes spec. Accordingly, I am setting the disposition of this issue to RESOLVED / FIXED. If the originator of the issue would examine the change and let us know whether it satisfactorily resolves the problem or not, we'd be grateful. To signal that the resolution is acceptable, change the status of the issue to CLOSED. Otherwise, to signal that it's NOT acceptable, change the status to REOPENED (and tell us what's wrong). If we don't hear from you in the next three weeks, we'll assume that silence betokens consent, and close the issue ourselves.