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Bug 16079 - hellip not a recognized entity in html5
Summary: hellip not a recognized entity in html5
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2012-02-22 15:54 UTC by Dan Jones
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
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Description Dan Jones 2012-02-22 15:54:26 UTC 
When an HTML5 document is submitted for validation that contains an hellip entity, the following error is given "reference to undeclared general entity hellip." This does not occur on validator.nu, and according to the list of named character references (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/named-character-references.html), this is still valid.
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2012-02-26 19:30:57 UTC 
If you're seeing the message "reference to undeclared general entity hellip", it's because your document is being parsed as "XML; don't load external entities" instead of HTML. So you may need to manually set the validator to one of the HTML5 presets (instead of the XHTML5 ones).

I don't know why you'd be seeing different behavior between the W3C Nu Validator and the validator.nu, but if you can point me to a URL I can check with, I'll do that.