James Oppenheim wrote:
A quick question. When marking up XHTML should I be using entity
names or entity numbers? Is there a standard or best practice?
The correct terminology for "entity numbers" is "character reference",
they are not entities.
Read this whole article which explains everything you need to know about
them. Regarding the terminology, take note of the first and second
comments, which point out a mistake I made in the article.
http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/10/char-refs
You'll find the answer to your specific question under the heading
"External Entity References". Generally, you should avoid named entity
references in XHTML if favour of numeric or hex character references.
http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/10/char-refs#charref-entity-ext
Even better than using references is to encode the file as UTF-8 and
just enter the real characters.
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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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