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   Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8+names

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David Carlisle wrote:

> My reading was that < _is_ defined in utf8+names as it _is_ defined in
> html and mathml but the result is still that the result is well formed,
> but has utf8+names expansion  < rather than <.

You're partially right, < is defined by old-fashioned (SGML-based) 
HTML but it's *not* defined by XHTML or MathML.  That's because it's 
wired into XML so XHTML gets it for free.  So it is *definitely* not 
defined in UTF-8+names, and the I-D should say that.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)






 

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