[Bug 13409] Defining Entity references for characters in XHTML.

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13409

Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> changed:

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--- Comment #23 from Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net> ---
Test case:

http://intertwingly.net/tmp/bug13409.xhtml

Current status is that the latest release of Opera will resolve the &sect;
entity reference, and that the latest releases of IE, Firefox, Safari, and
Chrome will not.

Given this, do we have any reason to believe that if the spec were to change in
the manner described by this bug report that this behavior will meet the
published exit criteria for the HTML WG:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/public-permissive-exit-criteria.html

The reason why I ask is that adding it now just to remove it later is not a
good use of our collective time.

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Chair hat off:

re: "it would be preferable if the html5 entity definitions were also loaded
for the standard HTML5 doctype declaration <!DOCTYPE html> or all doctypes"

doctypes like application/xhtml+xml or application/xml should be processesable
via standard XML toolchains.  This would not be the case if the proposal were
adopted.  Example:

$ python
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Jul 20 2012, 22:15:08) 
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from xml.dom import minidom
>>> from urllib import urlopen
>>> minidom.parse(urlopen('http://intertwingly.net/tmp/bug13409.xhtml'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1914, in parse
    return expatbuilder.parse(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 928, in parse
    result = builder.parseFile(file)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 207, in parseFile
    parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: undefined entity: line 9, column 7

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