RE: Combining across markup? (Was: RE: sign for anti-neutrino - g ree k nu with diacritical line aboveworkaround ?)

[Mike Ayers]

Title: RE: Combining across markup? (Was: RE: sign for anti-neutrino - g ree k nu with diacritical line aboveworkaround ?)

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jon Hanna
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:22 AM

> The W3C Character Model does not, or will not since it's not
> yet a Recommendation, allow text nodes or attribute values to
> begin with defective combining character sequences.

        Clarification, please.  Does this mean that the code:

<span lang=EN-GB >&#x3bd;</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:Cardo'>&#x304;</span>

        will be considered illegal due to the freestanding &#x304; ?

        Thanks,

/|/|ike