[whatwg] Parsing entities

Simon Pieters zcorpan at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 14 08:01:43 PDT 2006


Hi,

How are these entities handled?

   ∉
   ª
   º
   ϖ
   &sugmaf;
   ⊆
   ¹
   ²
   ³
   ⊇
   ϑ

Each of these have other other entities whose names are subsets of the 
above:

   ¬
   ∨
   π
   σ
   ⊂
   ⊃
   θ

I guess that for compat with IE and the Web[1] we have to treat 
"R&eacutesum&eacute" as if it were "Résumé". So how do we 
handle "¬i;"? When the parser has come as far as "&not" it can't return 
U+00AC yet because it could well be "∉". But when it has reached 
"¬i;" then it can't be "∉", thus it returns U+00AC, but then you 
also have to reparse the "i;", right? Unless I'm mistaken the spec doesn't 
say anything about that.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=R%26eacutesum%C3%A9

Regards,
Simon Pieters





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