' not recognized from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2001-04-12 (html-tidy@w3.org from April to June 2001)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:51:13 +0200
To: html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <h35cdtcqn99eifsj8s7ig0g4sg29ts5ikn@4ax.com>

Hi,

   HTML Tidy doesn't regognize &apos; as a valid XML entitiy (when in
'-xml' mode). XML defines these entities:

  <!ENTITY lt     "&#38;#60;">
  <!ENTITY gt     "&#62;">
  <!ENTITY amp    "&#38;#38;">
  <!ENTITY apos   "&#39;">
  <!ENTITY quot   "&#34;">

Just including &apos; in entities.c would enforce a major
interoperability problem, since HTML 4.01 doesn't define this entity, so
entity encoding routines would generate non-compliant code (if ' is ever
encoded as &apos;). What to do about that?
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