Kent Johnson wrote: > I see that htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint does not include 'apos' > as one of the recognized names. Is this intentional or a bug? > > In fact ' is not a recognized entity in HTML 4.01; see this list: > http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#misc > > But it is recognized in XHTML 1.0: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_Special_characters > > and AFAIK it is commonly supported by browsers which IMO argues > that it should be included.
it's a predefined XML entity. a classic HTML parser won't understand it, and the W3C HTML validator chokes on it, so it should definitely not appear in a list of *HTML* entities. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
