Re: Tests for named character references in HTML from David Carlisle on 2012-05-29 (public-html-testsuite@w3.org from May 2012)

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 10:07:36 +0100
To: Mathias Bynens <mathias@qiwi.be>
Cc: public-html-testsuite@w3.org
Message-ID: <4FC491D8.4070907@nag.co.uk>

On 29/05/2012 08:54, Mathias Bynens wrote:

 > Would there be any interest in having these tests submitted?

Not that I have any standing here but I'd be happy if they were 
submitted, looks a useful test thanks. I added a test for three or four 
"tricky" entity names in the math parsing test, but having a 
comprehensive test can't be a bad thing.


It would probably be worth testing behaviour on less good input as well, 
such as

&rubbish; (undefined entity: parse as &amp;rubbish; )
or
  &#999999999; (bad character number: parse as &#xFFFD;)
or

&copya (dubious use of a ;-less reference followed immediately by a letter
         parse as &copy;a )

David


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