- From: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:28:05 +0200
- To: public-html@w3.org
2007/8/1, Jirka Kosek: > Hi, > > please find below my comments to section 8.6. Entities > (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#entities). > > #1 > The table could be very confusing as many of entities are presented > twice with and without trailing semicolon. At the first sight I thought > this was just typo but it seems that reason for this is to mimics legacy > behavior of entity processing. But if someone will just follow the > reference to this section he or she could be very easily confused. > > Because of this, I think that there should be note clarifying why some > entities are presented twice in the table and pointing to an appropriate > part of parsing algorithm, probably 8.2.3.1 Tokenising entities > (http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#tokenising). Can someone remind me why this hasn't be done with a third "Is semi-colon required" column? -- Thomas Broyer
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