[tei-council] what is text (was "Re: <content> vs <mixedContent>")

[Sebastian Rahtz]

On 6 Oct 2014, at 19:39, Lou Burnard <lou.burnard at retired.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Although the two are lexically identical (i.e. what is valid for one is 
> also valid for the other), an XSLT processor will treat them differently 
> when normalizing spaces. Or so I believe.

A schema-aware XSLT processor may treat different datatypes differently, I agree.
I’d bet that most of us have never used such a beast. Luckily Mr
xmlplease has done the work for us, and demonstrates, surely, that
xsd:string behaves the same was as rng:text? i.e. even with a schema-aware
processor there is no normalisation of whitespace?

> To avoid having this discussion again every few years, I wonder if we 
> shouldn't deprecate "data.text" in favour of something called "data.string"?

probably. it would be more accurate, I agree.

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