Re: [xml-dev] [Zvon announcement] Character and character referencessearch

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com>]

Miloslav Nic wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> we have just made available:
> 
> Zvon Character Search
> ( http://www.zvon.org/other/charSearch/PHP/search.php )


Looks like a cool tool!

May I make a suggestion, though?

Since you are displaying the name of the character when searching by its 
   value, it would be nice to be able to search a character by its name 
;=) ...

Thanks.

Eric


> 
> Main features: 
> 
> - searches Unicode 3.1 characters and writes out a selection of 
> properties from Unicode database.
> 
> - determines if the character can be used in XML documents, in names of
> elements and as the first letter of the name
> 
> - contains character entities from HTML 4.01 and MathML 2.0
> specifications, which are searchable
> 
> - search by both hexadecimal and decimal code
> 
> - search by 1 byte character, most ASCII characters have also looks like
> field which 
>   lists visually similar characters, e.g. character reference for
> COPYRIGHT SIGN can be 
> found by searching for character "c"
> 
> - if the search term is an entity, e.g. "
" , " ", or "©"
> , it is automatically recognized as a search of relevant type, a
> convenient shortcut for  cut and paste technology
> 
> 



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