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Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View

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• Subject: Re: Character Entities: An XML Core WG View
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 06:31:45 -0500 (EST)
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• In-reply-to: <E187YFX-0006na-00@FUSMTA02-LRS> from "Anthony B. Coates" at Nov 01, 2002 09:37:49 AM

Anthony B. Coates scripsit:

> If the W3C defined elements for characters for
> HTML, so that character entities could and would be deprecated, everyone else
> would follow suit.  

Elements for characters, unlike entities, don't work in attribute values.

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