Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. Yes, it now parses and
compiles "©". The only thing is Firefox 8 (OS X 10.7) adds an extra
character before the copyright symbol. I have attached a screenshot.

James Parker



On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Adam Chlipala <[email protected]>wrote:

> Adam Chlipala wrote:
>
>> Marc Weber wrote:
>>
>>> Excerpts from Adam Chlipala's message of Tue Nov 01 14:34:11 +0100 2011:
>>>
>>>> The error message isn't meant to suggest it's invalid HTML, but merely
>>>> that the Ur/Web lexer doesn't support it yet.  I could copy-and-paste a
>>>> table of all valid HTML entities into the Ur/Web lexer/parser source
>>>> code.  Is that the best way to support all these little shorthands?
>>>> (You're not losing expressive power, as far as I know, since the
>>>> "&#NNN;" form is already supported.)
>>>>
>>> The best way is to make urweb read and understand xml dtd files or such.
>>> (my 2 cents)
>>>
>>
>> I'm looking at an HTML 4 DTD at w3.org, and the text "copy" doesn't
>> appear in it anywhere.  Are these character identities (e.g., "&copy;")
>> really part of the DTD?
>>
>
> I found some files at w3.org that seem to specify this information.  I
> don't know if they're called "DTDs," but they seem to get the job done. :)
>
> The latest Mercurial repo version of Ur/Web now supports all the entities:
>    http://hg.impredicative.com/**urweb <http://hg.impredicative.com/urweb>
>
> James, could you verify that this feature now works as you expect?  Thanks!
>
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