[whatwg] Ampersands not followed by ASCII letters or #

[Henri Sivonen]

I noticed that the Web Apps spec itself contains script samples with  
unescaped JavaScript && operators in <pre> blocks.

Considering that this is not an error in HTML 4.01 as SGML and  
considering that it is harmless in browsers, I think the top-level  
"Anything else" case under "8.2.3.1. Tokenising entities" should be  
split in two so that there is also an error-free case for the ASCII  
characters that aren't '#', aren't ASCII letters and that weren't in  
error in SGML-based HTML. I don't have The Handbook at my disposal  
right now, but the error-free case should cover at least '&', '<' and  
space characters.

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Henri Sivonen
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