[Gllug] Getting Linux to work with Freeserve (Wanadoo) Broadband

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Wed Jul 7 20:08:52 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:43:40PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> The ideal of markup systems (like TeX and HTML/XML) is to have text with
> an absolute minimum number of changes emerge exactly as it went in
> (reformatted appropriately). TeX fulfills this admirably, with extremely
> few characters requiring escaping: HTML and XML, well, how many entities
> do you want? Do you even know what they all *are*? (I know I don't.)

Don't confuse HTML and XML.  In XML there are precisely 5 predefined
internal entities.  No more are needed, though others may be defined for
convenience.

-- 
Bruce

It is impolite to tell a man who is carrying you on his shoulders that
his head smells.
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