Re: Named character entities

• From: John Lewis <lewi0371@mrs.umn.edu>
• Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:26:26 -0500
• To: www-html@w3.org
• Message-ID: <6473752533.20030518232626@cda.mrs.umn.edu>

Ian wrote on Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 8:57:55 PM:

> In the case of entities, XML says that non-validating parsers need
> not recognise anything outside of the five pre-defined entities.
> Thus, an arbitary non-validating XML parser will probably not
> recognise the XHTML entities. By the time the XHTML-specific part of
> the UA gets involved, it is likely that the entities are long lost.

Thank you for your explanation. That makes sense to me.

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John Lewis

Received on Monday, 19 May 2003 00:30:45 UTC