8211 2009-11-06 00:57:50 +0000 HTML 4 defined these as entities &name; where the ";" wasn't part of the entity name, and there wasn't a variation that some names don't have ";". If this is an example of error recovery, valid HTML should require the ;. 2010-10-04 14:47:28 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#named-character-references NE P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 29377 0 contributor 2009-11-06 00:57:50 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#named-character-references Comment: HTML 4 defined these as entities &name; where the ";" wasn't part of the entity name, and there wasn't a variation that some names don't have ";". If this is an example of error recovery, valid HTML should require the ;. Posted from: 72.254.91.11 29387 1 zcorpan 2009-11-06 11:47:08 +0000 The semi-colon is required. "The ampersand must be followed by one of the names given in the named character references section, using the same case. The name must be one that is terminated by a U+003B SEMICOLON character (;)." http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html#character-references "If the last character matched is not a U+003B SEMICOLON character (;), there is a parse error." http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/tokenization.html#tokenizing-character-references