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Rick Jelliffe scripsit:
> (Actually, I don't know why #xHHHH is used here: it would be better to
> use U+HHHH to emphasize that these are characters not codes in the
> external encoding.)
I wasn't about to make a gratuitous change to XML 1.1 to fix this, and
I suspect that XML 1.0 used #xHHHH because that most closely corresponds
to XML's own notation &#xHHHH; without actually being confusable with it.
In any case, as you say, #xHHHH(H) refers to characters, not encodings.
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