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Posted by richard on 09/24/06 15:51
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> patrick j wrote:
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>> I'm wondering about an entity.
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> Are you sure you need entities?
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>> The entity for a "stupid" double quote is: "
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> 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.
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>> What is the entity for a single "stupid" quote?
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> ' in any XML-based version of HTML, and none in classic HTML
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> 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.
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> 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.)
The apostrophe has always been a valid character as it has many valid uses.
Which should always be included in any html format.
Although I can't think of a valid reason why one would need to use it within
the text output other than for it's intended purpose.
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