- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:25:25 +1000
- To: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>, David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>, public-html@w3.org
Simon Pieters wrote:
> In my experience with discussing with authors, the most common name to
> refer to all three types of character escapes is "entities". The
> qualified de facto names are "named entities", "decimal entities", and
> "hexadecimal entities".
I object to the use of the term entities on the grounds that entities
are very specific things in SGML and XML, and they are still used for
XML today. I don't think the spec should promote the misuse of terms.
I think all 3 types should be called character references. If there is
a need to distinguish between them, then you qualify the terms using
using the appropriate prefix from this list:
* Character Reference (all types)
* Named Character Reference ( )
* Numeric Character Reference (both types)
- Hex Character Reference ( )
- Decimal Character Reference ( )
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
Received on Friday, 22 June 2007 12:25:37 UTC