[whatwg] Parsing Numeric Character References

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Wed Jun 6 18:32:55 PDT 2007


Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
>> Characters in the range from #x01 to #x19 (except for whitespace 
>> characters) are not treated interoperably across platforms...
>> 
>> The use of characters in either of these ranges should be an easy parse 
>> error.
> 
> I've made the first set a parse error, since those actually don't 
> roundtrip as one mights expect. But the x01-x19 entities roundtrip fine, 
> they just render funkily. We could define something special about these 
> characters in the rendering section, but I don't think they should be 
> parse errors. Do you agree?

Ok, that's fine.

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Lachlan Hunt
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