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RE: <&#220;belkeit/> - ASCIIfied element name (LibXSL

Subject: RE: <&#220;belkeit/> - ASCIIfied element name (LibXSLT/xsltproc)
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:34:58 +0100
RE:  <&#220;belkeit/> - ASCIIfied element name  (LibXSL
> Point being: having identifiers not being escapable makes 
> sense to me. I have always found it a bit unfortunate that 
> more and more languages allow higher characters (above the 
> US-ASCII range) to be used in identifiers, including XML, 

Yes, I agree it's a mixed blessing. I can imagine that if you're in Greece,
mixing one vocabulary that uses Latin letters with another that uses Greek
letters could make tags like <A> just a bit confusing.

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

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