- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:34:32 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > > > > > Should "'" be a valid charater reference in text/html? If not, > > > what would be correct error handling? > > > > I went with making it valid, since it's valid in XML. > > That's problematic, because allowing it as a conforming entity reference > does not add any expressiveness to the language but makes conformance > checking less useful as an authoring aid (because ' fails in IE and > such failure could be trivially avoided). True, but I think having the predefined XML entities be a subset of the HTML ones on the long term is better, even if it does cause short-term minor pain. > I think I'm going to emit a warning even if ' is conforming. That seems reasonable. > I am uncomfortable with <, >, &, " and © on > aesthetic grounds, but at least they work interoperably. Yeah. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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