Categories

MSXML 5.0 SDK

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - XML Schemas

Categories

The Unicode Character Database specifies a number of possible values for the General Category property and provides mappings from code points to specific character properties. The tables below specify the recognized values of the General Category property.

IsCategory

Syntax

IsCategory ::= Letters | Marks | Numbers | Punctuation | Separators | Symbols | Others

Letters

Syntax

Letters ::= 'L' [ultmo]?

The following table shows the properties for letters.

Property Description
L All letters
Lu Uppercase
Ll Lowercase
Lt Titlecase
Lm Modifier
Lo Other

Marks

Syntax

Marks ::= 'M' [nce]?

The following table shows the properties for marks.

Property Description
M All marks
Mn Nonspacing
Mc Space combining
Me Enclosing

Numbers

Syntax

Numbers ::= 'N' [dlo]?

The following table shows the properties for numbers.

Property Description
N All numbers
Nd Decimal digit
Nl Letter
No Other

Punctuation

Syntax

Punctuation ::= 'P' [cdseifo]?

The following table shows the properties for punctuation.

Property Description
P All punctuation
Pc Connector
Pd Dash
Ps Open
Pe Close
Pi Initial quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)
Pf Final quote (may behave like Ps or Pe depending on usage)
Po Other

Separators

Syntax

Separators ::= 'Z' [slp]?

The following table shows the properties for separators.

Property Description
Z All separators
Zs Space
Zl Line
Zp Paragraph

Symbols

Syntax

Symbols ::= 'S' [mcko]?

The following table shows the properties for symbols.

Property Description
S All symbols
Sm Math
Sc Currency
Sk Modifier
So Other

Others

Syntax

Others ::= 'O' [cfon]?

The following table shows the properties for others.

Property Description
O All others
Cc Control
Cf Format
Co Private use
Cn Not assigned

Note   The Cs property is not included here. The Cs property identifies surrogate characters that do not occur at the level of character abstraction that XML instance documents use.

See Also

XML Schema Regular Expressions | XML Schema Regular Expressions Reference Chart | Data Type Facets