RE: [xsl] UNICODE problem

Subject: RE: [xsl] UNICODE problem
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 16:21:10 +0100
> > Of course this will limit you to the XML-supported subset 
> of the 256 
> > characters allowed by iso-8859-1, whereas utf-8 gives you the 
> > XML-supported subset of some 1.1 million characters.
> 
> Add to that:  ..but that's OK, because your XSLT processor 
> should be smart enough, when outputting html or xml, to write 
> any characters that are beyond the iso-8859-1 range as 
> numeric character references or as character entity 
> references.

It's only OK if the element and attribute names use iso-8859-1
characters exclusively.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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