Re: Errata in XHTML 1.0

[Jim Clune <ji...@parasoft.com>]

On May 22, 2000, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> The ATTLIST declaration of xml:space given several times in the XHTML
> 1.0 strict DTD may be incorrect
> ...
> Either XHTML 1.0 or Xerces-J 1.1.0 needs to be fixed here. I don't know
> which one. A clarification from the XML folks would be appreciated.

I had this question as well, and recently received the following response
from François Yergeau through the w3c:
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The XML Core WG has recently processed a (still unpublished) erratum on
exactly this case, found the language in the XML 1.0 spec (cf. section 2.10)
to be ambiguous, and decided that it was not an error to declare xml:space
the way XHTML does.  Unambiguous language will appear pretty soon in the
revised XML 1.0 spec (not a new version, just a re-edition with the numerous
errata folded in and a modernized look).
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In light of this, it appears to me that current Xerces behaviour is (or soon
will be) incorrect.

Regards,

Jim Clune
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