[whatwg] Using the HTML5 DOCTYPE as a new quirksmode switch

[Elliotte Harold]

Simon Pieters wrote:

> Why would you need to declare entities, though?

If you don't define entities, then the parser can't resolve them. This 
is for entities such as © and ™. There are only five entities 
that XML parsers recognize out of the box without a DTD: &, <, 
>, ', and ".

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