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xs:whiteSpace

Purpose	This element is used for handling whitespace normalization of `xs:string` data types. The `xs:whiteSpace` element may be specified additionally to other facets. The corresponding feature of the W3C XML Schema is described in http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dt-whiteSpace.
Parent element	`xs:restriction`
Child elements	`xs:annotation`
Attributes	`fixed`, `id`, `value`

Name Type Description

fixed xs:boolean If "true", the value of this facet must not be changed in a derived type. Default: "false".

id xs:ID Assigns an identifier to the schema node.

Name	Type	Description
`fixed`	`xs:boolean`	If "true", the value of this facet must not be changed in a derived type. Default: "false".
`id`	`xs:ID`	Assigns an identifier to the schema node.
`value`	`xs:string`	This attribute allows you to control whitespace normalization. It has one of three predefined values: "preserve" No normalization takes place, the value remains unchanged. "replace" Each occurrence of the ASCII characters #x9 (tab), #xA (line feed) and #xD (carriage return) is substituted by #x20 (space). "collapse" This means the same processing as `replace`, but additionally each sequence of one or more consecutive #x20 (space) characters is converted to a single #x20 character; furthermore, leading and trailing #x20 characters are removed. For all data types other than `xs:string`, the value is fixed to "collapse".

value

This attribute allows you to control whitespace normalization. It has one of three predefined values:

"preserve"
No normalization takes place, the value remains unchanged.
"replace"
Each occurrence of the ASCII characters #x9 (tab), #xA (line feed) and #xD (carriage return) is substituted by #x20 (space).
"collapse"
This means the same processing as replace, but additionally each sequence of one or more consecutive #x20 (space) characters is converted to a single #x20 character; furthermore, leading and trailing #x20 characters are removed.

For all data types other than xs:string, the value is fixed to "collapse".

This simple example shows the use of the xs:whiteSpace element:

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