- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Jun 2003 10:08:51 +0100
- To: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>
- Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:
> Many (most?) languages do accept octal and hex escapes (such as \x#20)
> in regular expressions.
>
> 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's my reading.
ht
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