- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:35:20 -0600
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
Finishing stuff up for the day, and I saw... "[11:19] <DaveR> i am looking it up in ref book. [11:21] <DaveR> character entities is definitely correct for &#nnn; " No it's not. Dave, what part of the handbook were you looking at? They're called numeric character references. You can generalize to character references, but they're not entity references, and they're certainly not entities nor character entities. In ISO8879, the TOC looks like: 9 Common Constructs ... 9.4 Entity References ... 9.5 Character Reference See also, "4.37 character reference" and "4.217 numeric character reference" Perhaps the smallest edit to make the HTML 4 spec correct would be to change "3 Character entities" to "3 Character references". Calling an entity reference like & a character reference is less than 100% precise, but it's not wrong the way the current spec is. -- Dan http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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