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John Cowan wrote:
>
> 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
I agree with Rick that that would be good. Why not change it?
Alessandro
> , 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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