- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:08:58 -0700
- To: "John G. Spragge" <jgs@dancing-cat-software.com>, www-dom@w3.org
Trust those obnoxious large tables in the grammar productions, not the text explaining how they were derived from Unicode tables. - Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "John G. Spragge" <jgs@dancing-cat-software.com> To: <www-dom@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 1:18 PM Subject: Unicode character classes and XML parser > Sorry if this doesn't belong in the DOM forum, but the two addresses available for the XML list from the W3C web site don't work. > > This has to do with parsing XML using Unicode. On page 29 of the (printed) specification, (at http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#CharClasses), it says, and I quote: > > Characters which have a font or compatibility decomposition (i.e. those with a "compatibility formatting tag" in field 5 of the database -- marked by field 5 beginning with a "<") are not allowed. > Question from an implementor of the parser: does this mean xml excludes characters with decompositions altogether (presumably to avoid normalisation issues), or does it mean xml identifiers exclude such characters? > Thanks... > > > > ---- > J. G. Spragge > Dancing Cat Software -- http://www.dancing-cat-software.com > >
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