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RE: regex for element or attr name

• To: "'John Cowan'" <cowan@m...>, "'Rick Jelliffe'" <ricko@a...>
• Subject: RE: regex for element or attr name
• From: "Alessandro Triglia" <sandro@m...>
• Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 17:41:26 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <20031201133142.GI16127@m...>

John Cowan wrote:
> 
> 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


I agree with Rick that that would be good.  Why not change it?

Alessandro


> , 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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