RE: [xml-dev] Diff between Character reference and Entity Ref.

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kakade Mangesh [mailto:Mangesh.Kakade@sisl.co.in]
Sent: 02 May 2002 10:53
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Diff between Character reference and Entity Ref.

Hi all

I am Learning XML , In the same phase I came across Char reference  and Entity Reference but I could not differentiate between two

pl help me

 

TAI

 

Mangesh 

 

Character references are numeric (decimal or hex), e.g. &#xa0; or &#160;

 

Entity references are names, e.g. &nbsp;

 

Apart from that they are very similar.

 

Michael Kay