- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:58:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, David Carlisle wrote: > > By adding > > "-//W3C//ENTITIES HTML MathML Set//EN//XML" > > To the list in > > 13.2 Parsing XHTML documents > > Of Identifiers that are recognised when parsing XHTML syntax documents. What problem does this solve? > The current list gives no way to specify the identifier of a compatible > set of entity definitions so makes it highly likely that documents will > be interpreted differently by an XHTML user agent and a standard XML > toolchain. I do not understand what this means. Can you give an example? Fundamentally, I'd rather be removing these magic strings than adding more. If there's a compatibility need, then we should add it, but if the browsers don't already support the string, then there's no compat need that I can see. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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