- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 23:08:47 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Simon Pieters <zcorpan@gmail.com>, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>, Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>, David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
Along with a number of other e-mails on the thread, Lachlan wrote: > > 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 ( ) I've made that change. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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