- From: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@optimalco.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 17:26:14 -0700
- To: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-validator-0004@earth.li>, "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
On Friday 08 June 2001 10:41, Tim Bagot wrote: > SGML per se does not disallow them; the SGML declaration for HTML does. Of course, you're right. Sorry about the misstatement there. I got my wires crossed because of the validator's "Error: reference to non-SGML character" -- it's not really a non-SGML character, it's a non-XML character. The error message ought to be changed in this case, if SGML (other than HTML) might allow them. > They are not explicitly forbidden by XML, however[1]:- > > Legal characters are tab, carriage return, line feed, and the legal > graphic characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. > > The characters in question are not graphic characters in Unicode, and > therefore not legal in XML. OK, and we've established that they're not legal in HTML4 either. So why doesn't the validator complain when they're used in HTML4? -- Thanasis Kinias Vice President & Manager of Information Systems Optimal LLC Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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