Re: Errors in XHTML's Character Entities! from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2001-08-16 (www-html@w3.org from August 2001)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:35:54 +0200
To: "Charles Liu" <charles.liu@msa.hinet.net>
Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <5dvnnt8gd1sjuh6rijqncj0dktsdaqjadh@4ax.com>

* Charles Liu wrote:
>Hello Editors:
>There are a few errors in XHTML's Character Entities!
>
><!ENTITY amp     "&#38;#38;"> <!--  ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
><!ENTITY lt      "&#38;#60;"> <!--  less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->
>in XHTML 1.0
>
><!ENTITY lt      "&#38;&#60;" ><!-- less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->
><!ENTITY amp     "&#38;&#38;" ><!-- ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
>in XHTML modularization
>
>They should be compliant to HTML 4.01
><!ENTITY amp     CDATA "&#38;"   -- ampersand, U+0026 ISOnum -->
><!ENTITY lt      CDATA "&#60;"   -- less-than sign, U+003C ISOnum -->

No, please read http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-20001006#sec-predefined-ent
They must not be defined as in HTML 4.01.
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