On Jul 10, 2010, at 3:47 AM, Sausset François wrote: > I'm currently working on the MathML3 implementation and I noticed that new > XML entities have been defined by the W3C: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/ > > They are supposed to be used by both HTML 5 & MathML 3. > > I would like to include them in WebCore/html/HTMLEntityNames.gperf. > However there is one conflict with the existing XHTML 1.0 entities: \rangle > (and \langle) doesn't point to the same Unicode character in XHTML 1.0 and > HTML 5 entity definitions. > For instance, U+27E9 ("⟩") instead of U+3009 ("〉"). > > There are two possibilities: > - either update WebCore/html/HTMLEntityNames.gperf and overwrite the two > conflicting cases with the new standard, but it won't respect the XHTML 1.0 > specification anymore. > - or use two sets of HTML entities depending on the DTD of the document. It > would be the cleanest way, but I don't know how to make WebCore handle two > such sets. > > I think the best solution is the second one, but I'll need help to make > WebCore handle two entity sets and switch depending on the DTD. It is outside > of my present skills.
Go with the HTML5 / MathML 3 definitions for everything. Our XHTML implementation targets XHTML5, not XHTML 1.0. Regards, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
