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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: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/ Comment: Make the term "entity references" into a hyperlink to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#dt-entref Posted from: 133.27.228.187 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
for more background on this, see bug 22447 The term "entity reference" isn't used anywhere else in the HTML spec except in this one place, where it's been a cause for some confusion; see bug 22444 ('does "entity reference" refer to numeric entities or named entities?') Changing the "entity references" text with a hyperlink to http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#dt-entref in the XML spec would make the meaning clear and unambiguous. There are already similar hyperlinks to the XML spec in the "Serializing XHTML fragments" section of the HTML spec; for example, the terms "document entity" and "internal general parsed entity".
See diff in bug 22573.