Whitespace and xs:normalizedString, xs:token

Am I right that whitespace errors are not reported for
xs:normalizedString and xs:token and is irrelevant for validation?

That the above datatypes are only a show of intent. That is if
software can read the schema then xs:normalizedString and xs:token
indicate what the software can do with whitespace if it wants to do
something?

Cheers,
Jesper Tverskov