- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:21:23 +0100
- To: Shelley Powers <shelley.just@gmail.com>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, "public-xml-core-wg@w3.org" <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Shelley Powers On 09-11-03 20.39: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Boris Zbarsky: >> On 11/3/09 1:08 PM, Shelley Powers wrote: > But, there is a sentence in the existing HTML5 specification > that reads: > > According to the XML specification, XML processors are not > guaranteed to process the external DTD subset referenced in the > DOCTYPE. This means, for example, that using entity references > for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe if they are defined > in an external file (except for <, >, &, " and > ') It would increase text/html's compatibility with XHTML and vice versa, if "these things" were specified, wouldn't it? It would be one obstacle less if one wanted to create/serve polyglot documents? However, it might be that the specification of these things does not need to go into the HTML 5 specification itself. Regardless, whenever and wherever it becomes been specified, the quote above would need to be updated . -- leif halvard silli
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