Peter Flynn wrote:
David Carlisle wrote:
>>Do browsers really treat ' and ' differently? I'm appalled.
They shouldn't. They reference the same codepoint.
Not in (X)HTML they don't.
' is declared in the xhtml-special character entities as '
which in Unicode and ASCII is the unidirectional apostrophe ("'").
I'm puzzled. What's the difference?
Well, there's no difference; David was mistaken; XHTML, as an XML
application, implicitly defines apos and also explicitly defines it in
its DTD, as you noted.
HTML, however, does not define apos at all. To escape ' in an attribute
value in HTML, one must write '. In XSLT-land, this is only of concern
to the HTML serializer, if it happens to use ' to delimit attribute values.
- Mike
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