Re: Web Magazine featuring Accessibility issues from Leonard R. Kasday on 1999-10-21 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from October to December 1999)

From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:30:27 -0400
To: crism@exemplary.net (Christopher R. Maden), w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991021104902.00fd3d04@pop3.concentric.net>

>A semicolon or line-end terminator is eaten.  Any other
>non-name-character ends the entity name but is not considered part of it.

So I can write

   <=

as 

   &lt=  or &lt;=

In other words, the semicolon is optional here.  However, to avoid browser
bugs and inaccurate criticisms from people perusing my code, I'm gonna
leave in the semicolon.  Thanks again for your clear explanation.

Len
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Institute on Disabilities/UAP, and
Department of Electrical Engineering
Temple University

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Received on Thursday, 21 October 1999 12:27:07 UTC