On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 12:27:31PM +0000, John Rickman Iyonix wrote:
>
> There is an inconsistency in the descriptions of entities without
> semi-colons.
> Most are as follows:
>
> "description": "Bad named entity: Dagger without a semi-colon",
>
> But 107 of the 2000 or so entities have the word "Bad" missing from
> their descriptions.
This is correct. The HTML specification explicitly permits a number of
entities to have no trailing semi colon. Page authors should never use
these, but they exist in the wild, so user agents must consume them
correctly. The test data reflects the requirements on user agent
implementors.
J.
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