Re: Character references

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 07:05:34 -0800

At 02:12 PM 16/12/97 -0000, Michael Kay wrote:
>At present MSXML seems to permit "ª" but to
>reject "ª" (not to mention "ª" and
>"ª").
>
>I can't see any justification for this in the spec - what is
>the authors' intention?

I think the spec is clear, and no authors-intention clarifications are
relevant. To quote:

If the character reference begins with "&#x", the digits and letters
up to the terminating ";" provide a hexadecimal representation of the
character's value in ISO/IEC 10646

No reasonable interpretation of this could rule out any of ª or
ª or ª - I'm sure msxml will get around to fixing this. -Tim