In java, 0xFFFE or 0xFFFF should work. They aren't strictly the max
Unicode character for XML, but since Java represents Unicode as utf-16
but doesn't really provide much support for surrogate pairs (last I
checked), those should work. Hm.. Eclipse tells me that there is
Character.MAX_VALUE. Use at your own risk.
Reading up on Unicode is also recommended though... internationalization
is far, far more complicated than you ever imagined. I know people who
get the shakes if you just mention "Turkish 'I'" in their presence.
(mild exaggeration...)
-derek
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Gutierrez [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 9:20 PM
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> Subject: [xml-dev] XML Max Character Value
>
> I'm implementing B-Tree to index XML documents. I'd like a
> to use maximum character value as a boundry, or failing that a
> minimum character value.
>
> I'm working in Java.
>
> Is there a maximum character value guarunteed be greater than
> any other character regardless of the locale? Is that character
> Character.MAX_VALUE?
>
> Or do I have to read a book on Unicode? Which one?
>
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