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Escaping a string
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1536.html#escapingString
Editor's Draft 24 October 2008
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1536.html#editor-s-draft-date-zzz-9-june-2008
A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1536.html#a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml
Status of this document
http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.1.1536.html#status-of-this-document

http://people.w3.org/mike/diffs/html5/spec/Overview.diff.html
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.1535&r2=1.1536&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=2362&to=2363

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--- Overview.html 23 Oct 2008 15:39:07 -0000 1.1535
+++ Overview.html 24 Oct 2008 07:21:26 -0000 1.1536
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    <p><a href=http://www.w3.org/><img alt=W3C height=48 src=http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_home width=72></a></p>
    <h1>HTML 5</h1>
    <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=a-vocabulary-and-associated-apis-for-html-and-xhtml>A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML</h2>
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=editor-s-draft-date-zzz-9-june-2008><!-- "W3C Working Draft" --> Editor's Draft <!--ZZZ-->23 October 2008</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=editor-s-draft-date-zzz-9-june-2008><!-- "W3C Working Draft" --> Editor's Draft <!--ZZZ-->24 October 2008</h2>
    <dl><!-- ZZZ: update the month/day
     <dt>This Version:</dt>
     <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/</a></dd>
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
   specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation
   track.
   <!--ZZZ:-->
-  This specification is the 23 October 2008 <!--ZZZ "Working Draft"-->Editor's Draft.
+  This specification is the 24 October 2008 <!--ZZZ "Working Draft"-->Editor's Draft.
   <!--:ZZZ-->
   </p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- relationship to other work (required) --><p>This specification is also being produced by the <a href=http://www.whatwg.org/>WHATWG</a>. The two specifications are
   identical from the table of contents onwards.</p><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THE PRECEDING PARAGRAPH TO BE REMOVED OR EDITED WITHOUT TALKING TO IAN FIRST --><!-- context and rationale (required) --><p>This specification is intended to replace (be a new version of)
@@ -40680,11 +40680,9 @@
   purposes of the algorithm above) consists of replacing any
   occurrences of the "<code title="">&amp;</code>" character by the
   string "<code title="">&amp;amp;</code>", any occurrences of the
-  "<code title="">&lt;</code>" character by the string "<code title="">&amp;lt;</code>", any occurrences of the "<code title="">&gt;</code>" character by the string "<code title="">&amp;gt;</code>", any occurrences of the U+00A0 NO-BREAK
-  SPACE character by the string "<code title="">&amp;nbsp;</code>",
-  and, if the algorithm was invoked in the <i>attribute mode</i>, any
-  occurrences of the "<code title="">"</code>" character by the
-  string "<code title="">&amp;quot;</code>".<p class=note>Entity reference nodes are <a href=#entity-references>assumed to be expanded</a> by the user
+  U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE character by the string "<code title="">&amp;nbsp;</code>", and, if the algorithm was invoked in
+  the <i>attribute mode</i>, any occurrences of the "<code title="">"</code>" character by the string "<code title="">&amp;quot;</code>", or if it was not, any occurrences of
+  the "<code title="">&lt;</code>" character by the string "<code title="">&amp;lt;</code>", any occurrences of the "<code title="">&gt;</code>" character by the string "<code title="">&amp;gt;</code>".<p class=note>Entity reference nodes are <a href=#entity-references>assumed to be expanded</a> by the user
   agent, and are therefore not covered in the algorithm above.<p class=note>It is possible that the output of this algorithm, if
   parsed with an <a href=#html-parser>HTML parser</a>, will not return the
   original tree structure. For instance, if a <code><a href=#the-textarea-element>textarea</a></code>

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