Re: W3C ENTITIES Combined Set from David Carlisle on 2013-11-10 (www-math@w3.org from November 2013)

From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 18:00:27 +0000
To: www-math@w3.org
CC: dartonw@gmail.com
Message-ID: <527FC9BB.7010609@nag.co.uk>

On 09/11/2013 19:23, Darton Williams wrote:
> I recently used the combined entities at
> http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/w3centities-f.ent as an inline DTD
> in MS SQL Server (this automatically resolves entities to their
> character codes) and noticed a couple of issues:
>
> 1. <!ENTITY amp "&#38;#38;" ><!--AMPERSAND -->
> The value should be "&#x00026;"
>
> 2. <!ENTITY lt "&#38;#60;" ><!--LESS-THAN SIGN -->
> The value should be "&#x0003C;"
>
> The values above were tested and produced the correct characters when
> rendered in a browser as HTML. The uppercase variants of these entities
> also contain incorrect values.
>
> 3. <!ENTITY nvlt "&#38;#x0003C;&#x020D2;" ><!--LESS-THAN SIGN with
> vertical line -->
> AFAIK, the value should be "&#x0003C;&#x020D2;" but I just noticed this
> one and haven't tested.
>
> Regards,

No, you need to quote & and <. an entity with definition "&#x00026;" 
would not be well formed.

See the definition of amp here:

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

David

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