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At 5:01 PM -0500 1/10/02, Simon St.Laurent wrote:


>It might be worth noting the current discussion on xml-dev (or content
>thereof) regarding surrogate pairs, as SAX relies on the Java char and
>String constructs throughout. I'd qualify this as a minor documentation
>fix, as it only matters should SAX2 processors have to deal with XML
>1.1.
>

Actually it matters in XML 1.0 which can use Plane 1 characters like 
the musical symbols block today. These cannot yet be used in XML 
names, but they most certainly can be used in PCDATA and attribute 
values. In fact, I've already published one XML document that uses 
some of this stuff.
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