Re: Evaluation of XML Schema Part 2 PER base64Binary type

Gudge, does the whitespace stripping rule mean that "  abcd" is also in
canonical form?

Jacek

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 12:24, Martin Gudgin wrote:
> Dear XMLPers,
> 
> I took an action on last weeks call to take a look at the proposed
> edited recommendation of XML Schema Part 2[1] WRT the base64Binary
> type[2]. 
> 
> The description of the base64Binary type now contains a BNF and a
> canonical lexical form. The canonical lexical form contains no
> whitespace characters within the stream of base64 characters. Whitespace
> characters at the beginning and/or end of the stream of base64
> characters are stripped due to the whitespace facet of the type having a
> value of collapse. Thus any canonical lexical form of base64Binary is
> one line of base64 characters.
> 
> I believe that the addition of a canonical lexical form satisfies our
> requirements WRT XOP/MTOM.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gudge
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PER-xmlschema-2-20040318/
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PER-xmlschema-2-20040318/#base64Binary
>