Ok, thank you René. If I understand you correctly, this means that Xerces should have removed the trailing space in both the "ref" and "name" attributes, but didn't (or in only one of them). So I can file a bug. Julien Cugnière
2017-05-19 1:41 GMT+02:00 René Schindhelm <schindh...@gmail.com>: > Hey Julien, > > as far as I understand the XML standard, the attribute value has to be > normalized by any compliant implementation so that leading and trailing > whitespace must be removed before processing the value. > > Section 3.3.3, "Attribute-Value Normalization" ( > https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#AVNormalize) states: > > Before the value of an attribute is passed to the application or checked >> for validity, the XML processor MUST normalize the attribute value [...] > > > Pay attention to the line below the algorithm: > > >> If the attribute type is not CDATA, then the XML processor MUST further >> process the normalized attribute value by discarding any leading and >> trailing space (#x20) characters, and by replacing sequences of space >> (#x20) characters by a single space (#x20) character. > > > With that said, the `ref` attribute ( > https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-1/#ref.elt.global) of a schema is just a > regular XML attribute and should therefore be normalized by Xerces. > > If you believe this is a bug, you may want to file it under > http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/bug-report.html. > > Cheers, > > René
