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Philippe Poulard wrote: >> 3. Expand the list of predefined entity references to include what's >> defined in HTML and MathML. > what about referring character entities by their Unicode names instead > of their domain-specific names ? it's the same but less antique and > more universal > > something like this : > &#(MEASURED ANGLE); > instead of > ∡ I think Tim Bray proposed something similar many moons ago on this list. Anyway, what about adding the current HTML etc. entitites *and* adding the rest via a &(SOMETHING OR OTHER); notation? Sounds good, but what would adding the ever-expanding Unicode symbol table full of "HEXAGRAM FOR THE MARRYING MAIDEN" and the like do for XML parsers? Even with Unicode 5.x, that's a pretty big symbol table, no? And certainly, neither &HTMLentity; nor &(UNICODE NAME); would be XML 1.0 compatible. Something to consider. Would it maybe be worth it? Just noodling... Furthermore, how do you say "HEXAGRAM FOR THE MARRYING MAIDEN" in Cherokee? Jelks
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