Re: WOFF and extended metadata

Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fonts
Organization W3C
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thursday, June 17, 2010, 7:36:44 PM, James wrote:

>>>>>> "CL" == Chris Lilley <[email protected]> writes:

JC>> I'd go a bit further, though, and make it a SHOULD that the text
JC>> would use entities only for '&' and '<'.

CL>> No reason to forbid entities, as long as they are declared in
CL>> the instance.

JC> I guess I got used to problems due to entities which were presumed
JC> rather than declared.  I'm sure they do indeed work well when they
JC> are propperly declared. ☺

Yes, indeed you are correct to worry about undeclared entities (or entities declared in the external DTD subset) since those will give well formedness errors. Its a common mistake for authors to assume that entities they use in HTML are also available 'for free' in arbitrary XML.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:[email protected]
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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