Re: XHTML character entity support from James Graham on 2009-11-11 (public-html@w3.org from November 2009)

From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:28:46 +0100
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>, public-html@w3.org, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <4AFAE63E.1050409@opera.com>

John Cowan wrote:
> James Graham scripsit:
> 
>> See section 9.2 "Parsing HTML Documents" [1]
> 
> "This section only applies to user agents, data mining tools, and
> conformance checkers."
> 
> 9.1 is the section for documents.
> 

9.1 tells you what the legal syntax for writing documents is.

9.2 tells you how to parse documents irrespective of whether they use 
only legal syntax.

It seems to me that you are more interested in the latter, but perhaps I 
have misunderstood.

Received on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:28:42 UTC