THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Normalization

Normalization declarations define how schema processors will modify whitespace and character cases and insert default attributes and contents.

Attribute declarations and contents declarations may contain

<normalize whitespace="..." case="..."/>

where

whitespace has value
- preserve (the default)
- compress (compress consecutive whitespace characters)
- trim (as compress, but also remove leading and trailing whitespace)
case has value
- preserve (the default)
- upper
- lower

Default attributes:

Attribute declarations may contain: <default value="..."/>

Default contents:

Contents declarations may contain: <default> ... </default> (may contain elements!)

Normalization occurs before validity checking.