22447 2013-06-25 07:07:05 +0000 "using entity references for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe" should better be "using named character references for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe" 2013-07-04 05:54:11 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED INVALID http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#writing-xhtml-documents P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 89788 0 contributor 2013-06-25 07:07:05 +0000 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: Comment: "using entity references for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe" should better be "using named character references for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe" Posted from: 180.7.144.181 by mike@w3.org User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.0 Safari/537.36 89789 1 mike 2013-06-25 07:08:37 +0000 Maybe this is also what the reporter of bug 22444 was asking about... 89794 2 zcorpan 2013-06-25 09:19:02 +0000 ...other than the 5 predefined ones... 90176 3 ian 2013-07-02 23:08:09 +0000 *** Bug 22444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 90177 4 contributor 2013-07-02 23:10:20 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8016. Check-in comment: Make the XML terminology a bit more precise. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8015&to=8016 90209 5 mike 2013-07-03 02:37:02 +0000 (In reply to comment #4) > Checked in as WHATWG revision r8016. > Check-in comment: Make the XML terminology a bit more precise. > http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8015&to=8016 - the DOCTYPE. This means, for example, that using entity references - for characters in XHTML documents is unsafe if they are defined in + the DOCTYPE. This means, for example, that using character references + in XHTML documents is unsafe if they are defined in How come just "using character references" and not "using named character references"? I'd think the person who reported bug 22444 would probably now ask, "does 'character reference' refer to numeric character references or named character references?". 90279 6 ian 2013-07-03 22:35:40 +0000 Woops. This bug is actually invalid. We've been misreading the XML spec, and the old text was correct. There's no such thing as "named character references" in XML. There's only numeric ones (and they're generally just called "character references"). "Entity references" covers all the named ones. 90280 7 contributor 2013-07-03 22:35:48 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8032. Check-in comment: Oops, reverse r8016. I misread the XML spec. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8031&to=8032 90330 8 mike 2013-07-04 05:54:11 +0000 (In reply to comment #6) > Woops. This bug is actually invalid. We've been misreading the XML spec, and > the old text was correct. > > There's no such thing as "named character references" in XML. There's only > numeric ones (and they're generally just called "character references"). > "Entity references" covers all the named ones. So if we're confused about, clearly I think it's still likely to be confusing to some (a lot) readers of the spec. See bug 22574 for a suggestion about how to make it less confusing.