[whatwg] [html5] tags, elements and generated DOM

[fantasai]

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