XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT mercury.ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Oh, I see. You're thinking of cases where the 
> normalized character doesn't exist in the target 
> character set, and therefore is output as a 
> character reference and this character reference 
> can be in two forms: normalized or unnormalized; 
> and of course we want the normalized one. That 
> makes sense.

Right.  So in us-ascii, the string comes out "Áb́".

> Hmm, I do wonder if there are any legacy 
> character sets where the set has the unnormalized 
> form and not the normalized form. 

A few: there are various codes "for bibliographic interchange" with
ISO numbers that have combining characters, except that the combining
characters come first not last, so e with acute is represented as
combining acute + e.   But these have never been used on the open
Internet, and probably don't have any Java converters to worry about.
A sensible transcoder for these would have to do decomposition anyway.

In short, no problem.

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