Re: 10. Are decimal character references allowed?

Liam R E Quin scripsit:

> HTML comfort (the only argument for <!DOGTYPE>) would suggest allowing
> (1) decimal character references, (2) the HTML 5 entity set (including
> MathML).

I like "DOGTYPE".

However, the HTML doctype actually tells browsers something: process
this document in standards mode.  James has argued that it must be in
the data model because of that, but I think it's just a setting on the
MicroXML writer.

Decimal character references help only people who have the Latin-1
decimal codepoints memorized.  Everybody else is going to use hex
character references.

HTML5 character entities help human authors, but at a high cost for
MicroXML processors, plus the loss of XML compatibility (unless we are
going to have a more complex DOCTYPE, ugh.)

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Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:39:12 UTC