– is valid again?

[Andreas Prilop]

I just noticed that documents with – and the like

http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/temp/non-sgml-char.html

are again (!) valid HTML 4.

Does the W3C validator's behaviour change on a (regular) basis?

[Eric B. Bednarz]

Re: – is valid again?

Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri@rrz n-user.uni-hannover.de> writes:
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> I just noticed that documents with – and the like
> http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...sgml-char.html
> are again (!) valid HTML 4.[/color]

Being to young (well, in terms of Internet mangling, which doesn't
reflect my age compared to acquaintances :) to know otherwise, when and
how was that different?

An SGML parser should treat a character reference as data at the point
of its appearance; the unused codepoint, in return, is the *result* of
parsing that data (and the problem of the application :).
'Non-SGML-character' in terms of the SGML declaration is significant to
*markup* (such as entities, which are commonly confused with character
references just because /Entity Reference Open/ ['&'] and /Character
Reference Open/ ['&#'] share a leading character -- an unused codepoint
which is *subject to parsing*, like referencing an entity declaration
which contains a numeric reference to such a codepoint (and isn't
declared to be CDATA), on the other hand, should flag an error).


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[Andreas Prilop]

Re: &amp;#150; is valid again?

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Eric B. Bednarz wrote:
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>> I just noticed that documents with – and the like
>> http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...sgml-char.html
>> are again (!) valid HTML 4.[/color]
>
> Being to young (well, in terms of Internet mangling, which doesn't
> reflect my age compared to acquaintances :) to know otherwise, when and
> how was that different?[/color]

Here you go:

http://groups.google.com/groups?th=68f4d62f5ddcd79e

Winston failed to remove all evidence from the archives. ;-)

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