- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 17:27:55 +0100
- To: Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On 1 Aug 2007, at 13:28, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > 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? When implementing this section, I just copy and pasted the table, allowing me to create an CSV file from which I could easily create an array of each entity. If this was done with an extra column it would be more effort (though still possible). - Geoffrey Sneddon
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