[whatwg] Entity parsing from Ian Hickson on 2007-06-25 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from June 2007)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:19:47 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706250719380.14519@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Sam Ruby wrote:
> 
> With the latest changes to html5lib, we get a failure on a test named 
> test_title_body_named_charref.
> 
> Before, "A &mdash B" == "A ? B", now "A &mdash B" == "A &amp;mdash B".
> 
> Is that what we really want?  Testing with Firefox, the old behavior is 
> preferable.

What does IE do?

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