XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Michael Kay scripsit:

> 2C6 is a non-spacing circumflex,

In fact it's a small spacing circumflex.  The non-spacing (combining)
circumflex is U+0302, which is a legal XML 1.0 character.

> and it isn't allowed as a name character in
> XML 1.0, though it is allowed in XML 1.1.

It was incorrectly classified as a symbol modifier rather than a modifier
letter in Unicode 2.0, so it was excluded from XML 1.0.  The classification
was corrected in Unicode 4.0.

> The question is, were you trying to get a non-spacing circumflex into a
> name, or is this some random noise caused by misrecognizing the encoding of
> your input file?

Quite so.

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