Re: [svgwg] [svg-native] Support for XML entities/CDATA required? (#672) from Chris Lilley via GitHub on 2019-05-07 (public-svg-issues@w3.org from May 2019)

From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 17:19:11 +0000
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All of which seems to indicate that, for best interoperability, a valid SVG Native document must not contain any of the external or internal XML DTD subset (and thus, **define** no entities). That part we already resolved on.

It also implies that a valid SVG Native document must not **use** entities. Which is fine because, compared to 1998 when XML and SVG were starting out, Unicode is widespread and if you want é or Ť or ɔʇə you just type them or pick them, rather than relying on character entities like `&eacute;` and so on.

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