- From: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 01:31:54 -0700
- To: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>, www-html <www-html@w3.org>
Ernest Cline wrote to <mailto:www-html@w3.org> on 2003-04-06 21:24 in "" (<mid:3E90C548.28027.FA7363@localhost>): > One might argue that an agent that doesn't know > that &ps; should be replaced by U+2029 wouldn't know that &ps; is white > space, but the same problem applies to the existing entities , >  ,  ,  , and ‌. ‌ refers to U+200C, zero width non-joiner, which is a formatting character (general category Cf), not white space. > it does not > make sense to have use a non-named entity put to such use. All entities in XML are named. References of the form 
 are character references, not entity references. That aside, I don't understand why a character reference and an entity reference that resolve to the same character would be of differing utility. -- Etan Wexler <mailto:ewexler@stickdog.com>. Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago.
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