[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM
fantasai
fantasai.lists at inkedblade.net
Mon Apr 18 05:28:15 PDT 2005
Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2005, at 04:58, fantasai wrote:
>
>> For those of us writing HTML by hand, this is not a practical solution,
>> particularly when invisible characters are involved. Invisible characters
>> aside, I don't want to go digging through a Unicode character map every
>> time I want → or τ.
>
> That's not an issue for HTML where entities get tag soup treatment anyway.
>
> I didn't say that authors should not type entity references in XML. I
> said that the entity references should be resolved before the data
> travels from the server to the client.
So, when is my document going to get preprocessed? I certainly don't want
to bother fussing with it every time I fix a typo.
~fantasai
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