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The maximum for xml is 0x10ffff. You may want to think in terms of utf-8 encoding. One characteristic of utf-8 is that it preserves the order of strings. In other words, if code(A) < code(B), then utf-8(A) < utf-8(B) when compared as a sequence of unsigned 8 bit bytes. On Aug 13 07:19, Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@e...> wrote: > > Subject: Re: XML Max Character Value > > * 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.
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