XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["John.Cowan" <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Michael Kay scripsit:

> It's an old debate whether characters have meaning. Unicode says they do:
> which is why two characters can "look the same" and still have different
> codes.

Well, no.  Unicode doesn't assign meaning as such to characters, but it's
true that a character is not just its appearance: it has other properties
than that.  When Unicode assigns two different codes to the same abstract
character, it's for reasons of backward compatibility with other encodings.

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