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RE: xs:string - Isn't whitespaces preserved by default?

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'dave'" <ceek63@y...>,<user@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:36:46 -0000

> I have an xs:string type element to hold some regex 
> expressions. I haven't put any restrictions/facets for this 
> xs:string type. Isn't by default, it should preserve 
> whitespace? Looks like the leading and trailing spaces are 
> removed when I generate an XML using XmlBeans apis.

Who is "it"? An XML Schema processor will preserve the whitespace. That
doesn't mean that everyone else will.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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  • xs:string - Isn't whitespaces preserved by default?
    • From: dave <ceek63@y...>