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Jirka Kosek <jirka@k...> writes:

> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >   While I have your focus, I feel a bit annoyed by letting the validator
> > accept values broken by PIs or comments in the serialization pass through
> > the WXS datatype checker.
> >   Do people really expect
> >      "12<!-- comment -->e-12"
> > to validate as an xs:float in practice ?
> 
> It looks weird but I think that this should validate.

W3C XML Schema REC is clear that this _is_ OK -- non-character
infoitems are ignored in constructing [schema normalized value] of
element infoitems, which is the starting point for datatypes
processing.

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