• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 14:27:53 +0100

On 17/05/2011 14:10, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> The XML specification mandates version 2.0 of Unicode.
>
> Phew! That removes the variability in set of characters that may be used in XML documents.
>

No. You can use (more or less) any codepoint in xml character data 
irrespective of whether it has been assigned a character in any version 
of unicode. (The situation with respect to characters in element and 
attribute names is more complicated, and changed radically at unicode 1 
5th edition or xml 1.1)


David

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