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[whatwg] Duplicate Entity Reference Listed in Table of Entities

From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:15:11 +0200
Message-ID: <1a296f990804250815r3fcbc581nc901727ec8ace21d@mail.gmail.com> 
Sorry Lachlan, you'll get this twice. Forgot the list.

Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>   The spec currently lists the entity &not; twice in the table of entities,
> as shown in this extract:
>
>  ...
>  nopf;  U+1D55F
>  not;   U+000AC
>  not    U+000AC
>  notin; U+02209
>  ...

I think this is done one purpose, for entity references that are
recognized by browsers without the closing ";". The same thing is done
for e.g. "AMP" and "AMP;", and "Agrave;" and "Agrave".

-- 
David H?s?ther
Received on Friday, 25 April 2008 08:15:11 UTC

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