Paul Connolley <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:52 AM said:
> Emphasis on "Document text" - PCDATA. Text **may** contain character > references. This doesn't imply that all of the four main html entities > have to be encoded (<, >, &, and "). Note this document originally > applied to HTML but is as relevant to XHTML if you please. The only > important consideration is that ampersands be encoded correctly in > HTML and XHTML. So then is the consesus that encoding only the ampersand within regular body text is necessary and all other encodings are superfluous (excluding obvious necessities like value=""")? Thanks, Chris. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************