Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 09/24/06 05:00

patrick j wrote:

> I'm wondering about an entity.

Are you sure you need entities?

> The entity for a "stupid" double quote is: "

It's never needed except in a contrived case where an attribute value
contains a "stupid" double quote and you want to use double quotes as a
delimiter of the value.

> What is the entity for a single "stupid" quote?

' in any XML-based version of HTML, and none in classic HTML

It's never needed except in a contrived case where an attribute value
contains a "stupid" single quote and you want to use single quotes as a
delimiter of the value. In classic HTML, you were supposed to use a
character reference (') in such a situation.

You didn't find it in the HTML 4.01 specification because it isn't there.
It's mentioned in the XHTML 1.0 specification, though, as a compatility
issue: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_16
(It's not otherwise mentioned there explicitly, since ' is in XHTML
because it's part of XML, for some strange reason.)

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
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