Re: xhtml and character entities, test table

by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>

Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:43:33 -0400
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Cc:	J_A_B(at)t-online.de (Jens Brueckmann)
References:	studioae studioae2
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>Concerning the use of number codes rather than name codes, it should not 
>make any difference.
>A look at the http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd 
>shows you right at the beginning the definition of character entities. 
>These are further defined in the corresponding ent-files, e.g. 
>xhtml-special.ent for special characters which you can view at 
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_Special_characters or download 
>directly from W3C at
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml-special.ent .
>
>- using name codes instead of number codes is ok

Actually, no.  Some browsers -- notably NN4, still used by about 1% of 
users -- does not recognize many character entities, but will handle many 
numeric references.


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Chuck Upsdell
Email:     cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
Website:   http://www.upsdell.com/

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