XHTML and character entities

[Frank Boumphrey]

Actually the best thing would be to convert them all to numeric entities,
and then the problem wouldn't arise

frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Gabe Beged-Dov <begeddov at jfinity.com>
To: XML List <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 1999 10:20 PM
Subject: XHTML and character entities


>I mention tidy below but am asking about html->xhtml conversion in
>general.
>
>I use tidy to to convert html to xhtml using the -asxml switch. The
>result of many conversions is still not accepted as well-formed because
>entities like agrave and friends aren't defined unless you process the
>DTD.
>
>Wouldn't it be reasonable to convert these to character entities as part
>of the html->xhtml process?
>
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