Re: finding character code from string

Geoff Richards wrote:
> This has probably been asked before, but are there any plans
> for adding an EXSLT function for retrieving the Unicode character
> code of a character (i.e., a string of length 1)?
> 
> Something like this perhaps:  str:character-code('a')

I don't think there are any new functions/elements pending.

+1 if you want to write a proposal (actually spec it out and post it here).
Personally, I wouldn't hesitate to implement it, it's so easy. 

If you write a proposal, you might want to base it on XPath 2.0's
fn:string-to-codepoints() [1], although this would require you to return a
node-set, in order to give the codes for more than one character. There is a
precedent for doing it that way, though.

-Mike

 [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-string-to-codepoints