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Bug 22818 - The "if no match can be made" case under "anything else" should probably be clarified that "the characters" doesn't refer to what just failed to be consumed but rather the following characters in the [...]
Summary: The "if no match can be made" case under "anything else" should probably be c...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
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: 2013-07-26 21:30 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-10-24 20:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-07-26 21:30:09 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#tokenizing-character-references
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#tokenizing-character-references
Referrer: 

Comment:
The "if no match can be made" case under "anything else" should probably be
clarified that "the characters" doesn't refer to what just failed to be
consumed but rather the following characters in the input stream. (It's not
ambiguous, it's just a little counter-intuitive.)

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-07-26 22:24:50 UTC 
How are the characters that follow the ampersand different from the characters that failed to be consumed? I'm not sure I understand the request here.