Re: [xsl] xml to xml issue in XSLT2.0

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken, what do you mean by a serialization surrogate?

On 20/11/2007, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2007-11-20 11:34 +0000, Colin Adams wrote:
> >I would think that a private code point would be an ideal separator.
>
> I'm increasingly using private characters as serialization
> surrogates.  And while they might be less likely used for the text of
> Western European transmissions, I have not assessed their likelihood
> for being used in ideographic scripts as placeholders for
> non-existent characters, such as people's names.  Yes, their
> semantics are not internationally standardized (other than being for
> private use), but two Asian trading partners may very well be
> choosing to use them privately.
>
> As I explained about the normalization of line-ending sequences, I've
> long thought that the character reference &#xd; to be a very safe
> choice for an XML character unlikely to be found in XML source documents.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> >On 20/11/2007, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Do you need to worry about the delimeter here?  Just using:
> > > >
> > > > concat(../@name, @name)
> > > >
> > > > should be fine for the grouping key
> > >
> > > This obviously creates the (probably small) risk that ("AB", "C")
> > ends up in
> > > the same group as ("A", "BC").
> > >
> > > Michael Kay
> > > http://www.saxonica.com/
>
>
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