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Bug 22444 - does "entity reference" refer to numeric entities or named entities?
Summary: does "entity reference" refer to numeric entities or named entities?
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22447
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-06-25 06:50 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-07-02 23:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-06-25 06:50:45 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-xhtml-syntax
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-xhtml-syntax
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
does "entity reference" refer to numeric entities or named entities?

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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2013-06-25 07:11:20 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> does "entity reference" refer to numeric entities or named entities?

I can find only one place in the spec that mentions "entity references" and it should probably say "named character references" instead. See bug 22447
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-07-02 23:08:09 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22447 ***