XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[dvholten AT computer.org]

ok, i see - good point .

sure, xml supports characters wider than 2 bytes - but does java ??
having a valid xml-document doesnt mean, that anybody can actually process 
it.

after parsing the document, the attribute 'character="񐀀" ' is just
a java-string, limited to 2byte characters - i think.

would be interesting to see, if *any* xsl-processor can make sense of 
that.
and it's sure, that there *really is* a character at x50000 ? - unicode 
has gaps.

AFAIK, the latest java version 5 has better support for 'higher' character 
sets...

maybe wrapping the thing in CDATA can help..

dvholten
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sure, xml supports characters wider than 2 bytes - but does java ?? 
having a valid xml-document doesnt mean, that anybody can actually process
it. 
 
Characters above 65535 are represented in Java as a so-called surrogate
pair.  

after parsing the document, the attribute 'character="&#x50000;" ' is just 
a java-string, limited to 2byte characters - i think. 

would be interesting to see, if *any* xsl-processor can make sense of that. 
 
Of course they can. Certainly Saxon can.
 
Michael Kay