[XML-SIG] Strings or Unicode ?

[Juergen Hermann]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 10:12:06 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

>One thing I'd be curious to know is whether it's common practice
>to restrict XML tag names and attribute names to Latin-1 or even
>ASCII... ? I've used the approach of using Latin-1 8-bit strings
>if possible and reverting to Unicode objects for cases where this
>doesn't work. I've never seen an XML file with non-ASCII tag 
>names, so I suppose the Unicode case is artificial.

Never seen a chinese (or other asian) XML document? For them, it's 
mother tongue, not artificial. ;))

Essentially, the only western-comprehensible remains are the xml decl 
and the <>=3D"' markup chars.



Ciao, J=FCrgen

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