Re: comment nodes from John Cowan on 2000-09-22 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 2000)

From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:30:07 -0400
To: Joseph Kesselman/Watson/IBM <keshlam@us.ibm.com>, "www-dom@w3.org" <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <39CBCF5F.E94EDA55@reutershealth.com>

Joseph Kesselman/Watson/IBM wrote:

> That's about what I expected. The problem is that the DOM has committed to
> showing people their "junk",  so we have to decide whether the content of
> that comment should be reported as " -- " or " &#45;&#45; "

Questionless, the latter is correct.  Numeric character references are
interpreted only in content and in attribute values. Everywhere else, they're
either illegal (names, mostly) or uninterpreted.
 
> Which we should pick depends on when numeric character reference processing
> occurs versus other parts of XML syntax processing... and I'm still a bit
> fuzzy on that detail.

Not when but where.

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