"Shane P. McCarron" <shane@aptest.com> wrote: > This is not an HTML 4.01 issue - it is an SGML issue. And SGML requires > that entities be terminated with a semi-colon. No. Production 61 of ISO 8879:1986 (e.g. see [Prod61]) defines: reference end = ( refc | RE )? Note: refc = ";", RE = Carriage Return (decimal 13) So it is omittable in certain cases. For handy explanation, you may also look at "3.2.1. Data Characters" of HTML 2.0 spec [HTML20]. [Prod61] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/productions.html#prod61 [HTML20] http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC3.2.1 Regards, -- Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org W3C - World Wide Web ConsortiumReceived on Thursday, 6 July 2000 13:48:57 UTC
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