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FW: Diff between Character reference and Entity Ref.

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• Subject: FW: Diff between Character reference and Entity Ref.
• From: Kakade Mangesh <Mangesh.Kakade@s...>
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 16:35:25 +0530

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From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@n...]
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:18 PM
To: Kakade Mangesh; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE: Diff between Character reference and Entity Ref.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kakade Mangesh [mailto:Mangesh.Kakade@s...]
Sent: 02 May 2002 10:53
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Diff between Character reference and Entity Ref.

Hi all

I am Learning XML , In the same phase I came across Char reference  and Entity Reference but I could not differentiate between two

pl help me

 

TAI

 

Mangesh 

 

Character references are numeric (decimal or hex), e.g. &#xa0; or &#160;

 

Entity references are names, e.g. &nbsp;

 

Apart from that they are very similar.

 

Michael Kay 

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