- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 19:26:35 +0000
- To: lee@sq.com
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 20:53 14/11/96 EST, lee@sq.com wrote: >> To the lasting disappointment of the humorists among >> us, the name squot was dropped in favor of apos, which occurs in 8879 >> Annex D, set ISOnum, as do the others. > >Note that " is a single quote, which does not occur in ASCII. quot is defined as in 8879 as quotation mark, which is ISO standard name for the ASCII " character. HTML also defines quot as the ASCII " character. >I am very pleased with the decision to reduce the list of predefined >entities to a manageable number. I'm not actually sure why any beyong >< and & are needed, although > is good for symmetry. gt is included because ]]> is recognized even outside marked sections. >The current situation is so much of an improvement that it seems almost >churlish to ask this, but why is ' included when it is not >recognised in plain text? apos and quot are included for escaping LIT and LITA in literals. James
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