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="&quot;")?



Thanks,
Chris.
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