On Apr 17, 2005, at 04:58, fantasai wrote:
For those of us writing HTML by hand, this is not a practical solution, particularly when invisible characters are involved. Invisible characters aside, I don't want to go digging through a Unicode character map every time I want → or τ.
That's not an issue for HTML where entities get tag soup treatment anyway.
I didn't say that authors should not type entity references in XML. I said that the entity references should be resolved before the data travels from the server to the client.
So, when is my document going to get preprocessed? I certainly don't want to bother fussing with it every time I fix a typo.
~fantasai
