Hi Mark, xs:anySimpleType doesn't have any facets (not even whiteSpace) so this sounds like there may have been a bug in the 2.7.1 release. You should be able to work around it by setting the "http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema/normalized-value"; [1] feature to false.
Thanks. [1] http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html#validation.schema.normalized-value Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Feber, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2008 04:24:39 PM: > Question about preserving whitespace in the result when the schema > type declaration of an element is xsd:anySimpleType. > > Environment: Java 1.4.2, xerces 2.7.1 > > I am parsing a document described by an externally defined schema. > There are several elements whose type is declared as xsd: > anySimpleType, for example: > > <xsd:element name="literal" type="xsd:anySimpleType"/> > > In the xml document I am consuming, when the content of this element > is text containing forward or following spaces, e.g.: > > <literal> has spaces </literal> > > I need to be able to get the value of the element with the spaces > preserved. Unfortunately, both with SAX parsing and DOM parsing, > the element is returned as ?has spaces? rather than ? has spaces > ?. Changing the element type in the xsd to xsd:string (which is, > however, not an option in the final deliverable) results in the > desired (? has spaces ?) value being returned. > > Is there any way to get the desired value when the type is xsd: > anySimpleType? > > As an additional piece of information, the value ? has spaces ? is > returned in a c++ environment that is using xercesc even when the > type is xsd:anySimpleType. > > Thanks, > Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
