Re: Last call: Intro, SGML, MIME sections

James Clark (jjc@jclark.com)
Thu, 1 Jun 95 15:46:45 EDT

> Date: Thu, 1 Jun 95 15:13:18 EDT
> From: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.ca>
>
> In section "2.2.1Data Characters", there is a short paragraph that
> says:
>
> And note that an ampersand is only recognized as markup when
> it is followed by a letter or digit:
>
> In fact, numeric character references start with &#, so the above
> should read:
>
> And note that an ampersand is only recognized as markup when
> it is followed by a letter or or by a number sign ("#"):

That's not quite right because &# is only recognized when followed by
a name start character or a digit.