[html5] r873 - /

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Author: ianh
Date: 2007-06-06 17:26:31 -0700 (Wed, 06 Jun 2007)
New Revision: 873

Modified:
   index
   source
Log:
[e] (0) Add advice that Henri wrote for us for users of XHTML.

Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index	2007-06-07 00:02:42 UTC (rev 872)
+++ index	2007-06-07 00:26:31 UTC (rev 873)
@@ -1967,6 +1967,13 @@
   <p>Such XML documents may contain a <code>DOCTYPE</code> if desired, but
    this is not required to conform to this specification.
 
+  <p class=note>According to the XML specification, XML processors are not
+   guaranteed to process the external DTD subset referenced in the DOCTYPE.
+   This means, for example, that using entities for characters in XHTML
+   documents is unsafe (except for &lt;, &gt;, &amp;, &quot;
+   and &apos;). For interoperability, authors are advised to avoid
+   optional features of XML.
+
   <p id=authors-using-html><a href="#html5" title=HTML5>HTML documents</a>,
    if they are served over the wire (e.g. by HTTP) must be labelled with the
    <code>text/html</code> MIME type.</p>

Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source	2007-06-07 00:02:42 UTC (rev 872)
+++ source	2007-06-07 00:26:31 UTC (rev 873)
@@ -465,6 +465,14 @@
   <p>Such XML documents may contain a <code>DOCTYPE</code> if desired,
   but this is not required to conform to this specification.</p>
 
+  <p class="note">According to the XML specification, XML processors
+  are not guaranteed to process the external DTD subset referenced in
+  the DOCTYPE. This means, for example, that using entities for
+  characters in XHTML documents is unsafe (except for &lt;,
+  &gt;, &amp;, &quot; and &apos;). For
+  interoperability, authors are advised to avoid optional features of
+  XML.</p>
+
   <p id="authors-using-html"><span title="HTML5">HTML
   documents</span>, if they are served over the wire (e.g. by HTTP)
   must be labelled with the <code>text/html</code> MIME type.</p> <!--