Re: character references, trailing ';', urls

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:25:01AM +0000, eocene wrote:
> Jorge wrote:
> > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 12:54:06AM +0000, eocene wrote:
> > > Jorge wrote:
> > > > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 09:09:48PM +0000, eocene wrote:
> > > > > This msg says that it was changed because it wasn't required under
> > > > > certain conditions. HTML4 spec gives it as:
> > > > > 
> > > > >   Note. In SGML, it is possible to eliminate the final ";" after a
> > > > >   character reference in some cases (e.g., at a line break or
> > > > >   immediately before a tag). In other circumstances it may not be
> > > > >   eliminated (e.g., in the middle of a word). We strongly suggest
> > > > >   using the ";" in all cases to avoid problems with user agents that
> > > > >   require this character to be present.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > ...and there's an "IIRC" in the msg that XHTML requires it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The HTML5 spec requires a terminating ';' in all cases.
> > > > 
> > > >   Then, it looks like requiring it again in this case may be
> > > > the way to go (I seem to recall there were lots of unterminated NBSP).
> > > 
> > > Are you saying always for html5, (probably) always for xhtml, and for
> > > attributes with html4?
> > 
> >   I'm saying we should find a simple heuristic that copes with
> > the current situation.
> 
> If you want simple, I can just require it unconditionally and
> find out what happens.

  Your first suggestion looks quite reasonable. Please try it and
make some field tests. I'm currently working on the double imgbuf
problem...

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  Cheers
  Jorge.-