- From: Shane P. McCarron <shane@aptest.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:25:35 -0500
- To: Paul McGarry <paulm@opentec.com.au>
- CC: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>, www-validator@w3.org
Paul McGarry wrote:
>
> Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
>
> > > I've been trying to determine whether unentified ampersands really
> > > are invalid in attributes in html 4. I've come to the conclusion
> > > that it isn't invalid, just heavily frowned upon.
> >
> > No, it really is invalid.
>
> I'm going in circles here, that's what I originally thought.
>
> If it really is invalid, why does the html 4.01 spec use the word
> 'should':
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.3.2
> which has a different meaning to 'must' if I understand things
> correctly.
Because in general the HTML 4.01 spec sucks.
Seriously, its conformance indications leave a lot to be desired.
This is not an HTML 4.01 issue - it is an SGML issue. And SGML requires
that entities be terminated with a semi-colon.
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