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Bug 16929 - when the short syntax <!DOCTYPE html> is used, how shoould be handled enties (for example &times;) ? see https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/nHkIpswy3uE/yzL2K550NbwJ
Summary: when the short syntax <!DOCTYPE html> is used, how shoould be handled enties ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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: 2012-05-04 12:20 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-08-23 05:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-05-04 12:20:13 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#parsing-xhtml-documents
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#parsing-xhtml-documents

Comment:
when the short syntax <!DOCTYPE html> is used, how shoould be handled enties
(for example &times;) ? see
https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/nHkIpsw
y3uE/yzL2K550NbwJ

Posted from: 192.93.23.254
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:24:52 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18139 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-08-23 05:08:33 UTC 
In XML, things work just like the XML spec says they do.