- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:58:02 +0100
- To: "public-xml-core-wg@w3.org" <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
- Cc: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
See thread starting at http://www.w3.org/mid/CB173250-44A4-4E98-B723-101BB5673C85@webkit.org Maybe this is something that should be specified in the XML spec so that there is interoperability between XHTML UAs and other XML UAs. ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Alexey Proskuryakov" <ap@webkit.org> To: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org> Cc: Subject: XHTML character entity support Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:10:31 +0100 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. This works in at least Firefox, Safari and Opera, but it's depressing that such a major feature is not interoperable per the spec. I think that it's important to guarantee that character entity references work in XHTML (even when parsing fragments, e.g. with innerHTML - which doesn't currently work in Firefox or Safari, and is confusing to authors). For obvious performance reasons, it is impractical to ask UAs to utilize validating XML parsers, so this guarantee may need to be specified in a way that doesn't require full DTD support. - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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