Re: Numeric Char Ents in 2.0 draft

Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Fri, 31 Mar 95 13:58:22 EST

> Hmmmmm, well that would have been nice to know -- I was wondering where
> the × definition was coming from anyway, since its not in the DTD
> and not in my handy-dandy SGML reference. It's too bad that the SGML
> Handbook is not on the Web; as it stands, the fact that HTML is SGML is
> more by accident than design, and would have remained an accident if
> it were not for Dan's persistance.

> It needs to be changed in the spec, then, to not be iso-8859-1 specific.
> I'll think about the new wording when I find the time.

As you might infer from my previous message, I think it *shouldn't* be
changed in the spec.

>> So why isn't the language "character octet references are not
>> dependent on the character set encoding of the document" bogus
>> and to be deleted?

>Well, we can't just delete it -- a suitable (and conformant) alternative
>should be proposed.

As you might infer from my previous message, I think it should remain
and not be deleted.