[whatwg] vtab as an NCR expansion

Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi
Tue Sep 2 00:12:41 PDT 2008


On Sep 2, 2008, at 06:48, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>
>> Is it intentional that the vtab change didn't cause a change to vtab
>> treatment when expanding NCRs?
>
> Yes; why would it cause a change? The character still passes  
> through, it's
> just not treated as whitespace. (It's not like U+000D, which is  
> converted
> to U+000A.)


NCR expansion turns every other non-XML character into REPLACEMENT  
CHARACTER.

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Henri Sivonen
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