RE: validator and refc delimiter from Jon Hanna on 2002-10-03 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from October to December 2002)

From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:17:02 +0100
To: "WAI List \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <NDBBLCBLIMDOPKMOPHLHCEJBEHAA.jon@spin.ie>

> and XHTML has just added a new feature to it.

The only thing new about this with XHTML is that a semicolon is required
even if the entity reference is followed by whitespace. "&amp blah" was
allowed in HTML4.0 and earlier but "&ampblah" was not. However it has long
(always?) been recommended to use the semicolon in any case since it was
never wrong to do so, and hence a good habit to get into.

Received on Thursday, 3 October 2002 06:13:04 UTC