Re: Editing text

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 22:54:44 -0800


At 02:45 AM 28/11/97, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>Appendix B lists six and a half pages of potential NameChars for which
>JUMBO has to test - is this correct? If so I have code of the form:

Be warned; Appendix B will change again. Anyhow, if you really want an
isNameChar() function, I recommend something along the lines of

isNameChar(char c)
{
if (c < 128)
return BooleanArrayOfSize127WithTrueInNameCharPositions[c];
else
return DoIckyLookupInBigTableFromAppendixB(c);
}

Actually, I posted some Java code that reads the XML spec and
generates a reasonably efficient Java version of DoIckyLookup...
the Lark distribution currently has a CharClasses.java. I'll
re-test and re-generate and re-distribute after the next cut of the
spec. -Tim