- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 20:42:51 EST
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
davep@acm.org (Dave Peterson) wrote:
> lee@sq.com wrote:
> >Perhaps we also need apostrophe and grave accent. Note that there
> >is no single quote in ASCII, as ' is an apostrophe and ` is a grave
> >accent. The typewriter doube quote (") makes the fifth, right?
> >
> >amp ampersand &
> >lt left angle bracket <
> >quot grave accent `
> >apos apostrophe '
> >dquot typewriter double quote "
> >
> >That makeds five; do we also need
> >gt right angle brcket >
> >or
> >ket right bracket ]
>
> Does Unicode or 10646 really define "<" and ">" as left and right
> angle brackets?
No -- I was writing from home, sorry.
They are GREATER THAN and LESS THAN.
> Same question about "`". Really just a stand-alone accent?
UNICODE has ' (0027) as APOSTROPHE-QUOT
and ` (0060) as SPACING GRAVE
> What authority says that the " entity is "`"?
My faulty memory. Actually different SGML sources give "
to be ' or ", which doesn't help (e.g. Joan Smith, an authority but
not authoritative) gives quot as " and since the standard didn't
give pictures, nor the handbook, that's how I've always used it.
> I know of systems whose character
> repertoires differentiate between apostrophe and single closing quote!
Yes, that's resonable. In display work the single quote is often
rendered more heavily.
> and neither one is the "typwriter single quote" that "'" was at
> least originally meant to be.
Well, ASCII has it as an apostrophe, I believe.
> I assume you just made up "ket" as a name for "]"?
No, it's a common computer science name: bra and ket, [ and ].
> o Do the implied entity definitions for &, <, and > (the
> current required set) take precedence over local ones? Currently
> they do. (And *currently* must, see next bullet.)
>
> o Is the user *required* to use these three to escape "&", "<",
> and ">", rather than any other entities he or she may have
> available, or even other mechanisms for escaping? As I read
> the Nov 96 spec, this is a requirement. I don't like it.
>
> BTW, the spec says that you are to escape "]]>" as "]]>".
Someone else gave the 5 names. The spec isn't up to date, so I didn't
check against it, sorry.
If the names are part of the language they must begin with XML-.
If you can override them, they should not begin with XML-.
If you override them and do not have a DTD, you're OK to the
same extent you are with any other entity.
I don't see how you can forbid other entities to have replacement values
of & or < or " --- and that would be the effect of your second bullet
point --- so that must surely be an error in reading?
Lee
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