Re: New draft (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt

["Clive D.W. Feather" <[e-mail]>]

>> In section 5.2 it is said HTML uses the &#xNNNN; form and that
>> this form has a clear terminator. This is not really false but
>> HTML allows to omit the terminator if it is not needed, for
>> example <p>Bj&#xf6rn</p> is also valid. I would suggest to
>> mention only XML or note that HTML's mechanism is similar to
>> that of XML.

If you check the HTML specification (section 5.3), it says that SGML
allows the semicolon to be omitted in certain contexts, but "strongly
suggest" not to do that.

In particular, the example
    <p>Bj&#xf6rn</p>
is not valid because it lies in the middle of a word. A permitted case
would be:
    <p>Bj&#xf6</p>
where the tag begin symbol < ends the entity.

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