Re: [XQuery] MS-XQ-LC1-051

Michael,
In a conference call on Feb. 11, 2004, the Query Working Group decided to 
reject this proposal. Since we do not currently specify that a query must 
be encoded using Unicode characters, we need a mechanism to represent 
non-keyboard characters. We currently use the XML convention of character 
references for this purpose. Therefore ampersand is interpreted as a 
special character, and for convenience we recognize all the XML predefined 
entity references as well.

Please let us know whether you are satisfied with this response to your 
issue.
Regards,
--Don Chamberlin




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Section 3.1.1 Literals 
Technical 

XQuery String literal should not recognize any entities as part of the
human-readable syntax. Requiring support will make parsing and
user-understanding of strings like "H&M" way too complex.