Re: Quoted letter in SVG text

Chris Lilley <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:25:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.svg
Organization W3C
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 5:23:05 PM, Otto wrote:

OW> Robert Longson wrote:
>> SVG is basically an XML language so you can't use HTML entities. See
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
>> for more information on the differences.

OW> Does that means it's not possible to write math symbols in an SVG? How then?

Your options:

- Type them directly (Unicode), not using entities.
- Use numeric character references
- Declare the entities in the doctype (internaldtd subset)

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 Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain                 
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
 Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups