Candle Runtime's Standards Compatibility Reference

Version : Candle 0.11
Published date : Mar 4, 2012

Unicode Support

UTF8 is the only encoding scheme supported by Candle's markup and script.

Current implementation uses UTF16 for internally string representation and has limited support of unicode surrogates. In certain operations, like string length calculation, the result will not be correct.

XML and XML Namespace Support

Candle has compatible XML support.

Current implementation has several limitations:

XQuery Support

Candle runtime shall provide fully compatible XQuery support.

Current implementation has the following limitations: