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RE: XML Max Character Value

• To: "'Alan Gutierrez'" <alan-xml-dev@e...>,"'Bob Foster'" <bob@o...>
• Subject: RE: XML Max Character Value
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:26:49 +0100
• Cc: "'Derek Denny-Brown'" <derekdb@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <20050813111909.GD4299@m...>
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> 
>     It gives me something to Google about, "surrogate pairs". I see
>     Jaxen has some code to convert them.

There's also code in Saxon - the XMLChar module, borrowed from Xerces. 
> 
>     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.
> 

Java 5 has reasonable support for Unicode characters above xFFFF, but if you
want your code to work in earlier JDK releases you need to do it yourself.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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