Re: XHTML+RDFa DTD UA support (Was: Getting the XHTML+RDFa default profile to be interesting)

Shane McCarron, Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:15:55 -0500:

> With regard to named entities, my recommendation, and the 
> recommendation of the XHTML 2 working group, is that people who plan 
> to serve their documents using the media type application/xhtml+xml, 
> avoid the use of named entities since many user agents do not process 
> these correctly.

There definitely is some kind of system there. I tested all on that 
page and/or which Validator.w3.or support: new and/or 
"irrelevant/uncommon" DTDs are the ones which are not supported.

Is there any reason to avoid such entities in e.g. XHTML 1.0 documents? 
Which user agents are known to not support them then? Shouldn't such 
advice be a bit more discrete?

>  This will be included in an upcoming update to the 
> XHTML Media Types Note.
>
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Monday, 16 August 2010 16:04:12 UTC