- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:52:24 -0600
- To: www-html@w3.org
Dave J Woolley wrote: > > > > 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>. > > > > > > Some further information. > > Section 2.7 of the XML specification specifically > forbids interpretation of character entitities in > CDATA, quoting < and > as examples, but section > 2.4 makes specific exceptions for " and ' > in CDATA attributes. Looks like there is no escape > convention to represent literal " in XML! Oops! sure there is: just write: <!DOCTYPE mydoc [ <!ENTITY quot """> ]> <mydoc>foo " bar</mydoc> " doesn't have the status of < and & in XML, because it doesn't need to; you can just write: <mydoc>foo " bar</mydoc> and get the same results. > RCDATA appears not to be supported, meaning that > re-declaring %URI as RCDATA is no longer an option. again, no need: <mydoc aRef="http://example.com?q=abc"def"/> > Looks to me as though there is a serious conflict between > what is implemented and what is consistent with the > standards which are authorative in specific areas. How so? -- Dan http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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