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Errors in XHTML's Character Entities!

From: Charles Liu <charles.liu@msa.hinet.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 11:23:30 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <000101c1240b$dbbe3340$904cd93d@www.hinet.net>
To: <www-html@w3.org> 
Hello Editors:
There are a few errors in XHTML's Character Entities!

<!ENTITY amp     "&#38;#38;"> <!--  ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
<!ENTITY lt      "&#38;#60;"> <!--  less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->
in XHTML 1.0

<!ENTITY lt      "&#38;&#60;" ><!-- less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->
<!ENTITY amp     "&#38;&#38;" ><!-- ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
in XHTML modularization

They should be compliant to HTML 4.01
<!ENTITY amp     CDATA "&#38;"   -- ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
<!ENTITY lt      CDATA "&#60;"   -- less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->

Charles Liu
Received on Thursday, 16 August 2001 11:57:47 GMT

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