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Re: &mdash in boot-floppies/documentation



Van Buggenhaut <eric@eric.ath.cx> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:37:21PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:22:01PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote:
> > > I'll look into this.  The HTML translation map in debiandoc-sgml maps &mdash to &mdash
> > > which according to the HTML/XHTML book of O'Reilly doesn't exist.  Probably we need to
> > > use &#151; but conformance is not guaranteed.  I'll check the whole table and let you
> > > know what's up.
> > According to Section 24 of HTML 4.01 specification, mdash is a valid entity. :)
> I'm using Netscpae 4.75 with Potato and &mdash isn't resolved when i read HTML pages

Yeah, as HTML has shown, standards are meaningless w/o support of the
standards.

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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