- From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 02:48:53 +0900
- To: www-validator@w3.org
"Shane P. McCarron" <shane@aptest.com> wrote:
> This is not an HTML 4.01 issue - it is an SGML issue. And SGML requires
> that entities be terminated with a semi-colon.
No. Production 61 of ISO 8879:1986 (e.g. see [Prod61]) defines:
reference end = ( refc | RE )?
Note: refc = ";", RE = Carriage Return (decimal 13)
So it is omittable in certain cases. For handy explanation, you may
also look at "3.2.1. Data Characters" of HTML 2.0 spec [HTML20].
[Prod61] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/productions.html#prod61
[HTML20] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.2.1
Regards,
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Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Received on Thursday, 6 July 2000 13:48:57 UTC