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Re: regex for element or attr name

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: regex for element or attr name
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 08:31:42 -0500
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Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> (Actually, I don't know why #xHHHH is used here: it would be better to
> use U+HHHH to emphasize that these are characters not codes in the
> external encoding.)

I wasn't about to make a gratuitous change to XML 1.1 to fix this, and
I suspect that XML 1.0 used #xHHHH because that most closely corresponds
to XML's own notation &#xHHHH; without actually being confusable with it.

In any case, as you say, #xHHHH(H) refers to characters, not encodings.

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