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Bug 10287 - The definition for an ambiguous ampersand excludes known named character references, but fails to exclude valid decimal or hex numeric character references.
Summary: The definition for an ambiguous ampersand excludes known named character refe...
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-08-03 12:58 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:30 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-08-03 12:58:43 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#syntax-ambiguous-ampersand

Comment:
The definition for an ambiguous ambersand excludes known named character
references, but fails to exclude valid decimal or hex numeric character
references.

Posted from: 213.236.208.22
Comment 1 Lachlan Hunt 2010-08-03 13:13:41 UTC 
So it seems I didn't think before filing this. Numeric character references include a "#" too, so they don't match the sequence described. Closing this bug.