Re: DTD/xhtml-special.ent with 2 errors ? from Masayasu Ishikawa on 2003-01-14 (www-html-editor@w3.org from January to March 2003)

From: Masayasu Ishikawa <mimasa@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:38:48 +0900 (JST)
To: helmut.rasinger@wanadoo.fr
Cc: www-html-editor@w3.org
Message-Id: <20030114.223848.59669266.mimasa@w3.org>

Hello,

"helmut.rasinger" <helmut.rasinger@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> ERROR REPORT concerning file DTD/xhtml-special.ent :
> 
> <!ENTITY amp     "&#38;#38;"> <!--  ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
> <!ENTITY lt      "&#38;#60;"> <!--  less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->
> 
> In my opinion this should be:
> <!ENTITY amp     "&#38;"> <!--  ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
> <!ENTITY lt      "&#60;"> <!--  less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->
> 
> I didn't find it in
> XHTMLT 1.0 Second Edition Specification Errata
> but can I find these Errata files elsewhere?

This is not an error, see "4.6 Predefined Entities" of XML 1.0.

  cf. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-predefined-ent

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Received on Tuesday, 14 January 2003 08:38:50 UTC