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Re: XHTML (was: Chelume)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Saturday, January 10, 2004, 3:51
Mark J. Reed scripsit:


> > > 9) Make sure you use the semicolon after an entity reference like &aacute;.
> >
> > I wasn't aware you could do without them before?
> Neither was I, actually.

Yes, SGML allows the ; character to be omitted if a delimiter such as a
space or line end follows.

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