10. Are decimal character references allowed?

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 21:33 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> 10. Are decimal character references allowed?  There has been no
> discussion, but nobody has asked for them.

I'm sure it's no coincidence that this is item 10.

HTML comfort (the only argument for <!DOGTYPE>) would suggest allowing
(1) decimal character references, (2) the HTML 5 entity set (including
MathML).

Most faulty XML on the Web seems to be RSS, and the most common fault is
assuming that HTML entities are available. (However, the second most
common fault might be assuming HTML 4 syntax can be embedded in an XML
description element, and we have no cure for that except a cluebat)

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