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Re: XML Max Character Value

• To: Bob Foster <bob@o...>
• Subject: Re: XML Max Character Value
• From: Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...>
• Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:19:09 -0400
• Cc: Derek Denny-Brown <derekdb@m...>, xml-dev@l...
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* Bob Foster <bob@o...> [2005-08-13 02:55]:

> Alan Gutierrez wrote:

> >     I'm implementing B-Tree to index XML documents. I'd like a
> >     to use maximum character value as a boundry, or failing that a
> >     minimum character value.

> I believe the current Unicode character range, and the one that was 
> effective for the XML 1.0 standard, is 0x20-0x10000 (note 17 bits) plus 
> the control characters, '\t' and '\n' and minus the surrogate pair range 
> and 0xFFFF and 0xFFFE. The fact that Java doesn't have much support for 
> the surrogate pairs, which are the only way to express character values 
> greater than 0xFFFF, doesn't mean they won't appear in XML documents.

    It gives me something to Google about, "surrogate pairs". I see
    Jaxen has some code to convert them. 

    Am I seeing that with Unicode in Java, you need to work with
    String and not with individual char? That puts a dent in my
    algorithm, which advanced along the characters in the string.

> So the answer is, no there's no single 16-bit maximum character value. 
> The test requires access to at least the next character and a little code.

    Is zero the absolute minimum? If so I could build reverse indices.

    Thanks for your help, Bob, Derek, and Robert. I'm not getting
    any feedback at comp.lang.java.programmer.

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