Re: Issue: empty strings as keys and keyRefs

[Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI <kohsuke.kawaguchi@eng.sun.com>]

> I think the simplest solution will be to say that <key> and <keyRef> don't 
> match empty strings even if the included pattern can match an empty string, 

"" (the string of length 0) is not the only one. To be precise, "empty
string" is a string that consists of #x20,#xD,#xA.

Because patterns like

<element name="foo">
  <choice>
    <empty/>
    <key>
      <data type="string">
    </key>
  </choice>
</element>

and an instance <foo>   &xD;  </foo> is still ambiguous.



regards,
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Kohsuke KAWAGUCHI                          +1 650 786 0721
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