whitespace and schema string length

[McEligot, Sean (contractor)]

I was expecting schema string maxLength validations to ignore white space,
but that doesn't appear to be the case. Is this a bug, or can this behavior
be toggled, or am I just wrong in my expectations? To illustrate, in the
following example I get this message:
length.xml:5:25:5:26 Datatype error: In element 'four' : Value ' 1234 ' with
length '6' exceeds maximum length facet of '
4'..

<!------------ length.xml ------------>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<personnel xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-instance";
           xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation='length.xsd'>
  <person>
    <four> 1234 </four>
  </person>
</personnel>

<!------------ length.xsd ------------>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<schema xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema'>
 <element name="personnel">
  <complexType>
   <sequence>
     <element ref="person" minOccurs='1' maxOccurs='unbounded'/>
   </sequence>
  </complexType>
 </element>

 <element name="person">
  <complexType>
   <sequence>
     <element name="four" type="four_type" minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='1'/>
   </sequence>
  </complexType>
 </element>

<simpleType name="four_type">
  <restriction base="string">
    <maxLength value="4" />
  </restriction>
</simpleType>

</schema>


Thanks,

Sean

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