XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> To summarize, the zero character can't appear anywhere inside an XML  
> document. Not even in a Unicode surrogate.
> 
> Why is this a nice property?

The same nice properties could have been achieved if � were allowed as a
character reference, in the same way as  is now allowed. And many other
nice properties would have been achieved at the same time, in particular the
ability to encode an arbitrary octet stream without resorting to nonsense
like base64 encoding.

But never mind, committees always make compromises.

Michael Kay