Re: [xml-dev] US-ASCII characters versus XML characters ... why such a huge discrepancy?

On 01/10/2012 16:01, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
>     <xs:simpleType name="characters">
>          <xs:restriction base="xs:string">
>              <xs:pattern value="[&#1;-&#127;]*" />

If you are using an XML 1.0 parser that expression won't get as far as 
the schema validator as it is not well formed XML so it will be rejected
on parsing. The schema documents have to be well formed XML before they 
are looked at for schema rules.

David

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