- From: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:49:21 -0600
- To: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Cc: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap@webkit.org>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:10 -0700, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: >> As noted in >> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#writing-xhtml-documents >> >, there is no guarantee that authors can use character entity >> references such as in XHTML, because XML parsers are not >> required to process external DTD subsets. > > A bigger issue is that even user-agents which *do* process external DTD > subsets are not necessarily going to support named entities; simply > because XHTML5 documents do not link to a suitable DTD defining the > named entities. > >> This works in at least Firefox, Safari and Opera > > In Safari? That's news to me. Last time I tried looking at an XHTML+RDFa > 1.0 document served with an XML media type, named entities did not work. > (The XHTML+RDFa 1.0 DTD defines the same set of entities used in XHTML > 1.1.) > Named entities don't work with XHTML+RDFa in any of the browsers, except Opera. > -- > Toby A Inkster > <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> > <http://tobyinkster.co.uk> > > > Shelley
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