- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:00:10 +0200
- To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Eric van der Vlist wrote: > The rec is clear (IMO) that these escapes are not allowed (at least I > haven't found them in the EBNF for patterns) and Xerces agrees and > rejects them. > > However, I have a customer who insists using them, saying that they are > mentioned in Microsoft's doc (but I haven't found where) and that MSXML > 4.0 does accept them (which I can confirm). > > Can you confirm that these escapes are forbidden and that numeric > entities should be used instead? That is also my reading of the spec, I see no indication that there are \x#20 style escapes. In fact, the few paragraphs before F.1 specifically point to entity escapes. Sounds like a MS bugture to me. -- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr> Research Engineer, Expway http://expway.fr/ 7FC0 6F5F D864 EFB8 08CE 8E74 58E6 D5DB 4889 2488
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