Re: pb with entities FOUND IT from Christophe Strobbe on 2002-12-04 (html-tidy@w3.org from October to December 2002)

From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:35:49 +0100
To: Riccardo Cohen <rcohen@dial.oleane.com>, html-tidy@w3.org
Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20021204172641.028a2220@mailserv.esat.kuleuven.ac.be>

Hi Riccardo,

At 18:15 4/12/2002, Riccardo Cohen wrote:

>by the way, is this a bug in tidy, or is it normal that without doctype, 
>&eacute; cant
>be generated ? (from my point of view this behavior is not normal, but I 
>dont know very well standards)
>Thanks

In HTML, the DOCTYPE is actually required; see 
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#idx-document_type_declaration-3:
"A valid HTML document declares what version of HTML is used in the 
document. The document type declaration names the document type definition 
(DTD) in use for the document (see [ISO8879])."
The DTD (whether strict, transitional, or frameset) contains a reference to 
"HTMLlat1.ent", which contains the ISO Latin 1 character entities, so 
without the DOCTYPE, you can't always expect an HTML parser to know about 
entities.

This may not be an explanation of the behaviour of Tidy, but it's relevant 
to parsing generally.

Regards,

Christophe

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