28025 2015-02-13 22:51:11 +0000 A codepoint is a non-negative integer assigned to a ·character· by the Unicode consortium? 2015-03-16 23:56:30 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT Functions and Operators 3.1 Candidate Recommendation PC Linux CLOSED FIXED P2 minor --- 1 patrick mike andrew_coleman public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 117911 0 patrick 2015-02-13 22:51:11 +0000 Curious why say "non-negative" instead of "an integer in the Unicode codespace." Characters, by the way, are encoded characters when assigned to a code point. Unicode, 7th edition, 2.4 Code Points and Characters. 117917 1 mike 2015-02-14 10:40:45 +0000 >Curious why say "non-negative" A previous editor was somewhat fond of adjectives. As when people talk of "well-formed XML", it's redundant but not incorrect. I'll remove it. In the 2007 spec the definition of "codepoint" appeared in a Note, and some time during the development of 3.0 it was promoted to a definition. 118281 2 andrew_coleman 2015-03-04 14:49:05 +0000 At the teleconference on 2015-03-03, the Joint Working Group agreed to fix this as an editorial change. Many thanks. 118364 3 mike 2015-03-05 17:08:07 +0000 Note also that as a result of a separate bug in this series, the normative definition moves to the Data model spec.