- From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:19:35 -0000
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
> From: Liam Quinn [SMTP:liam@htmlhelp.com] > > It does for attribute values. See > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#h-6.2>. > That's what the HTML spec says, but it is not authorative. To get an authorative specification you need to *buy* the ISO standard for SGML. All I have to go on at the moment is "Practical SGML", 2nd edition, by Eric van Herwijnen (ISBN 0-9923-9434-8) which distinguishes between RCDATA, where entity references are supported, and CDATA, where makup is ignored. The issue amounts to whether or not entity references is limited to phrases and whether markup excludes character entities. It is also possible that the book fails to explain different rules for attribute values.
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