Re: [xml-dev] RE: Best Practice for designing XML vocabularies containing accented characters -- allow both composed and decomposed forms

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Michael Sokolov <>
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David Lee <>
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2013-02-02T19:30:25Z
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Re: [xml-dev] RE: Best Practice for designing XML vocabularies containing accented characters -- allow both composed and decomposed forms
On 2/2/2013 2:08 PM, David Lee wrote:
>              <xs:choice>
>                  <xs:element name="résumé" type="xs:string" />
>                  <xs:element name="résumé" type="xs:string" />
>              </xs:choice>
> --------------
>
> I personally shudder at this concept ...  frightening <ducks under  covers>
>
>
I agree, that's a terrible idea. Sadly the pragmatic recommendation must 
be just don't do that: ie don't use characters that can be represented 
differently in NFC and NFD in node names.  And if your vocabulary *must* 
include such names, then it is incumbent on you to normalize incoming 
data (to NFC I would think) when you process it. Stop the madness!

-Mike