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Re: US-ASCII characters versus XML characters ... why sucha hu

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:29:59 +0100

On 1 October 2012 16:01, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> Ken Holman wrote:
>
>> XML Schema does not constrain character sets.
>
> I don't understand this. If I have a pattern facet that specifies any of the 28 characters not supported by XML
>
>     <xs:simpleType name="characters">
>         <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
>             <xs:pattern value="[&#1;-&#127;]*" />
>         </xs:restriction>
>     </xs:simpleType>
>
> then I get this error:
>
>     Character reference &#1; is an invalid XML character

That's an error from the xml parser rather than the schema processor...

If you change the version in the prolog to 1.1 it should work.


-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

• References:
  • US-ASCII characters versus XML characters ... why such a hugediscrepancy?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: US-ASCII characters versus XML characters ... why such a huge discrepancy?
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
  • RE: US-ASCII characters versus XML characters ... whysuch a huge discrepancy?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>