> > Apart from not needing to do it, Mike Kay has suggested that
> > string-length is relatively expensive because of the need to
> > sort out surrogate pairs before counting characters.
Well, that is the case for Saxon, but there is no requirement to implement
strings using UTF-16. XSLT processors that don't use UTF-16 as their
internal encoding won't suffer from this expense.
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