On Thursday, October 11, 2001, at 09:57 AM, dave.cantrell@gunter.af.mil wrote:2. Unknown entities (but valid in html) in feeds with no DTD.Simplest Solution: Have RSS allow all entities valid in HTML. No DTD required because the RSS parser should understand and accept these entities and the RSS elements by design. Spec or no spec, this should be standard behavior.This is no solution since those who use validating parsers (should be most folks) are not going to be able to go in and start mucking with their XML parser. XML parsers should be a black box to most RSS users.
Couldn't the XHTML entity modules be added to the root RSS DTD? I'm still getting oriented with XHTML modularization, but this seems like a good application.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/dtd_module_defs.html#a_xhtml_character_entities>As noted, not much you can do about XML that isn't well-formed. The whole point of XML is to be strict about certain things.
Joe
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