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At 9:52 am +0100 3/3/04, Henrik Martensson wrote: >On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:35, Andy Greener wrote: > > I'd appreciate some advice on the following issues... > > >From your point of view, it should not matter how a character is >represented. As long as all the different pieces of software in you >application play by the rules, that is. They don't always do that... Err, quite (see below)... > > >> I guess the fundamental question is: how are character entities >> interpreted in relation to the document encoding (i.e. what's the >> order of evaluation)? If that's not the fundamental question then > > I'm missing something :-)) > >I think a more important question is: why do you care? When your >application uses the two different representations of a pound sign, in >what way does the behavior of your application differ? There are complexities I didn't go into, but basically there are two different ways in, using two different parsers, and testing was revealing 4 different outcomes (only one of which was the expected successful acceptance of a pound sign) with the two alternate representations! Something is clearly broken (or at least it's clear now!) I let the oddness of the test outcomes lull me into mistrust of what we'd been doing, apparently successfully, all along up to this point.... Thanks to everyone who responded - I am a little older and a little wiser :-) -- Andy Greener Mob: +44 7836 331933 GID Ltd, Reading, UK Tel: +44 118 956 1248 andy@g... Fax: +44 118 958 9005
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