Then why does the W3 use it in their example?®
You should avoid all named entities in XHTML, except quot, amp, lt, gt.
For all other characters use unicode encoding or numeric unicode entity reference.
It's not illegal, just less-than-perfect.
The problem is that you need to load DTD to recognize named entities.
Without named entities XHTML documents may work as standalone XML, and that makes processing of them a bit easier (and easy processing is why XHTML was created in the first place).
Usually it's best to use UTF-8 instead of entities - you get best readability and most efficient encoding of special characters.
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