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Bug 22573 - change "entity reference declarations" to "entity declarations" and make it a hyperlink to XML spec
Summary: change "entity reference declarations" to "entity declarations" and make it a...
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 05:43 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-07-09 21:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-07-04 05:43:26 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
Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/

Comment:
change "entity reference declarations" to "entity declarations" and make it a
hyperlink to XML spec

Posted from: 2001:200:1c0:3602:6408:234f:45fb:c0be by mike@w3.org
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1554.0 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2013-07-04 05:45:55 UTC 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-entity-decl

The XML spec does not use the term "entity reference declarations". It calls them "entity declarations".

This is reference to the sentence in the HTML spec that reads, "This URL is a DTD containing the entity reference declarations for the names listed in the named character references section."
Comment 2 contributor 2013-07-09 21:10:11 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8042.
Check-in comment: XML terminology sync-up.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8041&to=8042
Comment 3 contributor 2013-07-09 21:16:25 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r8043.
Check-in comment: Cross-references to XML.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8042&to=8043