- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:23:31 -0400
- To: Lavinia Hyde <Lavinia.Hyde@cimr.cam.ac.uk>
- CC: Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org>, site-comments@w3.org
Lavinia Hyde wrote: > > Many thanks for your reply. The URL is:- > http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/sgml/entities > > Ideally I would like to be able to scan the page for, e.g. a pound sign, > and find the &#code beside it. I agree that would be a handy resource; one finds this in the Unicode specification, for example. I was one of the editors of that specification. We debated the question of including "live" markup in the spec that would be rendered in people's browsers. In the end, we chose not to, because we were concerned that the rendering might be construed as being normative. Renderings of character entities may have been less "riskey" than renderings of tables or other markup (for which there is no predefined rendering). The type of page you describe should be part of an HTML test suite. Anybody know of a good one? _ Ian -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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