[whatwg] ' in text/html

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Should "'" be a valid charater reference in text/html? If not, 
> > > what would be correct error handling?
> > 
> > I went with making it valid, since it's valid in XML.
> 
> That's problematic, because allowing it as a conforming entity reference 
> does not add any expressiveness to the language but makes conformance 
> checking less useful as an authoring aid (because ' fails in IE and 
> such failure could be trivially avoided).

True, but I think having the predefined XML entities be a subset of the 
HTML ones on the long term is better, even if it does cause short-term 
minor pain.


> I think I'm going to emit a warning even if ' is conforming.

That seems reasonable.


> I am uncomfortable with <, >, &, " and © on 
> aesthetic grounds, but at least they work interoperably.

Yeah.

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