Re: those predeclared entity refs from Peter Flynn on 1997-03-26 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from March 1997)

From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
Date: 26 Mar 1997 09:01:37 +0000 (GMT)
To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Message-id: <199703260901.JAA08527@curia.ucc.ie>

Jon writes:
> Any case for including predefined entities because it's what people
> are used to is a case for including all of them.  And you can't
> include all of them because you end up with a stinking mess.
> 
> We have decided to go with Unicode precisely in order to get beyond
> all this.  Let's get it over with.

Right, but we need some documentation for users on what to do with it.
If words like r&eacute;sum&eacute; are not valid in XML, we need to
demonstrate a replacement.

What was the URL of that page that gave all the Unicode tables?

///Peter

Received on Wednesday, 26 March 1997 04:00:47 UTC