> I wrote a transformation that uses unparsed-text() and regex processing to
> create an XML version of the Unicode database;

interesting this is also what 
http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007xml/unicodedata.xsl
does (although uniocde.xml also has a lot of extra data from other
sources, eg entity name info)

>  you can easily look up what code block a particular character falls
> into because it's part of the data for each character.

The character class is, (represented as 

      <character id="U00022" dec="34" mode="text" type="other">
         <unicodedata category="Po" 

by the above, but that's not quite the same as the code block though is
it?

David

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