- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 21:51:00 +0300
On Apr 18, 2005, at 15:28, fantasai wrote: > Henri Sivonen wrote: >> On Apr 17, 2005, at 04:58, fantasai wrote: >>> For those of us writing HTML by hand, this is not a practical >>> solution, >>> particularly when invisible characters are involved. Invisible >>> characters >>> aside, I don't want to go digging through a Unicode character map >>> every >>> time I want → or τ. >> That's not an issue for HTML where entities get tag soup treatment >> anyway. >> I didn't say that authors should not type entity references in XML. I >> said that the entity references should be resolved before the data >> travels from the server to the client. > > So, when is my document going to get preprocessed? I certainly don't > want > to bother fussing with it every time I fix a typo. If there is no CMS and the server served raw files, the preprocessing would have to happen while editing or in an editor save hook. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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