Re: [xml-dev] xslt string units

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2009-03-12 22:35 +0100, Vincent De Groote wrote:
>Does the string functions (string-length, 
>substring, ... ) work with Unicode character 
>units, or the implementation code point units ?

Character points ... just give it a try:

T:\ftemp>type vincent.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                 version="2.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:value-of select="string-length('abc&#x10000;def')"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xslt2 vincent.xsl vincent.xsl
7
T:\ftemp>

>If they count as implementation code point 
>units, does it have a fixed type (like utf16) 
>?  Or is it implementation dependant ?
>
>In other words, does the Unicode characters 
>above or equal 0x10000 count as 1 or 2 xslt string characters ?

One.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . Ken



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