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Re: Here's how to process XML documents written in German

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:31:02 -0500

On 1/30/13 3:39 PM, Michael Kay wrote:
> The odd thing is, people have known about this problem for years, but
> I've never once seen it happen in the real world. There are plenty of
> character encoding problems that cause a lot more hassle in real life
> than this one, which as David Lee points out, is easily avoided by
> applying schema validation to the input (and using a schema-aware
> stylesheet, if you really want to be safe).

I have encountered it, but it was the result of someone running files 
through Unicode normalization tools at one setting after running their 
stylesheets through similar tools on a different setting.

It was good for some head-scratching, and I'm actually finding myself 
writing about similar issues now that I'm playing in a language (Erlang) 
which sort of supports Unicode but has a limited toolset.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• References:
  • Here's how to process XML documents written in German
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Here's how to process XML documents written in German
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>