Herrod, Lisa wrote:
Lachlan Hunt wrote:
http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/10/char-refs
I remember seeing them referred to as "character entities" in HTML 4.01 -
was that an error in the publication, or is that what they were called back
then...?
It's one of the many mistakes in HTML 4.01, which was pointed out in the
comments of my article. What HTML 4 refers to as character entities are
just entities containing a single character. From an SGML/XML point of
view, there is no difference between an entity containing a single
character or a string of many, so the term "character entity" is more of
a description than a name.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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