I said "the passage you quoted does not appear anywhere in the spec", emphasis added.

I see. So you just popped up to tell me that the text I quoted from one (linked)document, doesn't appear in some other (unreferenced) document?

Sound!

And by "the passage", I really meant any reference to being a text format at all.

Really? Then I guess you missed section "2.2 Characters" of "the spec": That I both linked and quoted elsewhere. 

2.2 Characters

[Definition: A parsed entity contains text, a sequence of characters, 
+which may represent markup or character data.] [Definition: A charact
+er is an atomic unit of text as specified by ISO/IEC 10646:2000 [ISO/
+IEC 10646]. Legal characters are tab, carriage return, line feed, and
+ the legal characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. The versions of t
+hese standards cited in A.1 Normative References were current at the 
+time this document was prepared. New characters may be added to these
+ standards by amendments or new editions. Consequently, XML processor
+s MUST accept any character in the range specified for Char. ]

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