XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Harold scripsit:

> >0x50000 is 5,242,880 in decimal. However Unicode is not a 32-bit code 
> >set. It's actually a 20 bit code set, and the maximum value is a little 
> >over one million so 0x50000 is out of range. Off the top of my head, I'm 
> >not sure what XOM and XML should do here. I'll have to explore this 
> >further.
> 
> Never mind. My arithmetic was wrong.  0x50000 is only 327,680 so it is 
> within the Unicode range. That's not the problem here.

The highest possible character is U+10FFFF, for the record.  Also for
the record, not only is U+50000 unassigned, it's wildly unlikely that
it will ever be assigned.  (Characters that need encoding, unlike
computers that need IP addresses, aren't growing in number, except
a tiny bit in the CJK area.)  The range U+F0000 to U+10FFFF is for
private use, but otherwise U+3FFFD is almost certainly the highest
character code that will ever be used.

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