Re: ISO/IEC 10646 as Document Character Set

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Fri, 5 May 95 23:28:45 EDT

>sgmls: SGML error at -, line 8 at ";":
> Numeric character reference exceeds 255; reference ignored
>sgmls: SGML error at -, line 9 at ";":
> Numeric character reference exceeds 255; reference ignored
>sgmls: SGML error at -, line 10 at ";":
> Numeric character reference exceeds 255; reference ignored
>sgmls: SGML error at -, line 11 at ";":
> Numeric character reference exceeds 255; reference ignored
>
>I don't know if sgmls is reporting an error in the document or an
>internal limitation. The error message suggests that the error
>is in the document.

This is SGMLS notifying you that it has no representation for the
character in it's system character set, and that it is hence ignoring
it. Such behaviour is not required, and indeed, SGMLS could just as
well replace all such characters with a questions mark, and still be
conforming.