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Re: xsl:lang (was Re: [xsl] in Saxon)

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Hi Joerg,

> Neat idea. Though i hope having functionality for normalizing
> Unicode strings and a TR10 collation framework built in is mandated
> or at least recommended, as programming this in XSLT is, to reuse a
> recently used phrase, 'no fun at all'.

Well, from my reading of the F&O WD, it appears that everything will
be Unicode-normalized. So if you concatenate two strings together,
then you get a normalized concatenation, for example. There's also an
explicit function for Unicode-normalizing a string in various ways.

I'm not sure which type of normalization will be applied by default
(W3C, presumably), nor whether normalization occurs before strings are
used by functions as well as after (you'll have to excuse my
innaccurate terminology, but I'm thinking about if you have an
unnormalized string with a pair of characters that would be normalized
into a single character, then are the indexes used the ones in the
unnormalized string or the ones in the normalized string?)

Cheers,

Jeni

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