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Re: [xsl] Unicode and child element

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>>>>> "Ken" == G Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Ken> The Unicode characters &#xFDD0; through &#xFDEF; are
    Ken> specifically "non-characters", which means they must not be
    Ken> used to represent characters in a data stream between sender
    Ken> and receiver.  This means that two trading partners must not
    Ken> use them in XML documents, which makes them available for
    Ken> XSLT users for this character mapping technique without
    Ken> interfering with user data.

No - they are not available for XSLT users. The author of the XSLT
transformation could be considered the sender, and the XSLT processor
could be considered the receiver.

Non-characters can only be used in application-specific protocols
which are not visible to users. So, for instance, they might be used
in the internals of an XSLT processor as special markers (Saxon uses
NULLs for such a purpose, as they cannot occur in XML data, but it
could equally use a non-character for such a purpose).
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire

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