Re: XHTML character entity support

Shelley Powers On 09-11-03 20.39:

> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Boris Zbarsky:
>> On 11/3/09 1:08 PM, Shelley Powers wrote:

> But, there is a sentence in the existing HTML5 specification
> that reads:
> According to the XML specification, XML processors are not
> guaranteed to process the external DTD subset referenced in the
> DOCTYPE. This means, for example, that using entity references
> for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe if they are defined
> in an external file (except for <, >, &, " and
> ')


It would increase text/html's compatibility with XHTML and vice versa,
if "these things" were specified, wouldn't it? It would be one
obstacle less if one wanted to create/serve polyglot documents?

However, it might be that the specification of these things does not
need to go into the HTML 5 specification itself.

Regardless, whenever and wherever it becomes been specified, the quote
above would need to be updated .
-- 
leif halvard silli

Received on Wednesday, 4 November 2009 17:05:27 UTC