- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:37:52 +0900
- To: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
- Cc: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco.com>, W3C Validator <www-validator@w3.org>
At 08:28 01/07/19 +0200, Terje Bless wrote: >On 19.07.01 at 14:25, Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org> wrote: > > >It's not the word 'graphic', it's production [2] in the spec. For XHTML, > >which is a combination of XML and HTML, it's not 100% clear. > >Gee, where have I heard that before... I'm starting to develop an >instinctive dislike for anything with "XHTML" in the name. :-( Well, nobody uses these codepoints for what they would be intended anyway, so it doesn't matter. > >But we decided that we fail for both HTML and XHTML, because the chance > >that it's an error (the wrong character) is much bigger than the chance > >that that somebody really wants one of the control characters. > >For HTML 4, yes, but for XHTML we've been giving errors for these all >along. The current code will give an error about these characters in both >HTML and XHTML. Is that more or less what you had in mind? Yes, exactly. Thanks a lot. Regards, Martin.
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