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Re: [SML] i18n Name support?

• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
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• Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 16:06:49 -0500 (EST)

Don Park scripsit:

> XML parsers I have seen uses the target
> platform's Unicode support to deal with it.  I doubt one
> can rely on all SML platforms to have such support.

Probably not.  But some parsers use their own tables.
It really isn't too hard: a table of characters valid
at the beginning of a name, and another table of characters
valid anywhere in a name, excluding the ones in the first
table.

The main issue is that if combining characters are allowed
to be first in a name, then they will attach to the <
character instead of standing alone, by Unicode rules.

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