Re: [xml-dev] Valid element name

[Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>]

> Thanks David. The reason is a long and very boring story related to
> historic (non xml aware) software. But thanks for your suggestion, I
> am looking to change the requirement along these lines.

If you cannot do that, then pick a legal namechar that is not common in 
your use and use that as an escape character.  For example, if you pick R, 
then
        RR means a single R
        Rnnnn means the four hex digits nnnn contain the utf-8 codepoint. 
Leading zero's are required

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