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Bug 22574 - Make the term "entity references" into a hyperlink to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#dt-entref
Summary: Make the term "entity references" into a hyperlink to http://www.w3.org/TR/xm...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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: 2013-07-04 05:47 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-07-09 21:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-07-04 05:47:08 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#writing-xhtml-documents
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#writing-xhtml-documents
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
Make the term "entity references" into a hyperlink to
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#dt-entref

Posted from: 133.27.228.187 by mike@w3.org
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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2013-07-04 05:53:21 UTC 
for more background on this, see bug 22447

The term "entity reference" isn't used anywhere else in the HTML spec except in this one place, where it's been a cause for some confusion; see bug 22444
('does "entity reference" refer to numeric entities or named entities?')

Changing the "entity references" text with a hyperlink to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#dt-entref in the XML spec would make the meaning clear and unambiguous.

There are already similar hyperlinks to the XML spec in the "Serializing XHTML fragments" section of the HTML spec; for example, the terms "document entity" and "internal general parsed entity".
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-07-09 21:13:29 UTC 
See diff in bug 22573.