Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 02/25/07 08:13

Sub titulo "Re: Semantic of a nested list?"
scripsit Andrew:

> - - why there appear to be 2 different
> ways of doing this: ō and ō? I

Actually there are even more ways: ō as well as all these with the
semicolon omitted, which is allowed in HTML 4.01 under certain conditions,
though not advisable). Oh, and ō and ō in HTML 4.01, but XML and
hence XHTML is case sensitive for the "x" though not for hexadecimal digits.
If your mind whirls, do _not_ tune your mind; the absurdity is in the
reality, in the specifications.

ō and ō are character references using the Unicode code number of
the character, in decimal and in hexadecimal; "x" stands for "hexadecimal",
following one of the odd traditions in computerese. They are completely
identical in meaning, but support to the decimal format is marginally
better. (I think the margin here consists mainly of Netscape 4, which might
be still used by some odd people.)

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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