Re: [whatwg] Entity parsing

[Simon Pieters]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:05:05 +0200, Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, �istein E. Andersen wrote:

From section 9.2.3.1. Tokenising entities:
>  For some entities, UAs require a semicolon, for others they don't.

This applies to IE.

FWIW, the entities not requiring a semicolon are the ones encoding
Latin-1 characters, the other HTML 3.2 entities (&amp, &gt and &lt), as
well as &quot and the uppercase variants (&AMP, &COPY, &GT, &LT, &QUOT
and &REG). [...]

I've defined the parsing and conformance requirements in a way that
matches IE. As a side-effect, this has made things like "na&iumlve"
actually conforming. I don't know if we want this.

Firefox, Opera and Safari treat "na&iumlve" as equivalent to  
"na&amp;iumlve". So for compat with them, the semicolon should be made  
required.

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Simon Pieters