>>>Even better than using references is to encode the file as UTF-8
and just enter the real characters.
In ideal world, yes. Unfortunately I have to use entities because of
legacy back-end scripts. I even wrote a small convertor[1] for this
reason.
1. http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/work/typo/
best regards,
Dmitry Baranovskiy
On 19/10/2006, at 1:29 PM, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
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.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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