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named character entities: " & < > … — £

posted by martyb on Sunday January 11 2015, @02:19PM   Printer-friendly
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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Monday January 12 2015, @11:11AM

    by martyb (76) on Monday January 12 2015, @11:11AM (#28227) Journal

    Hmm, maybe you were giving me examples of the syntax of the input instead of examples of the output?

    @The+Mighty+Buzzard

    @#18

    Does not appear to be the case; at least in preview, they appear exactly as I typed them. Let's try putting angle brackets around them:

    <@The+Mighty+Buzzard>

    <@#18>

    I've replaced the less/greater than chars with named character entities to show what I had used; nothing was displayed in either case -- the elements were completely removed.

    Let's try using a "user" element:

    <user @The+Mighty+Buzzard>

    <user @#18>

    Same result, and same change, after the fact, to reveal what I had entered.

    Let's try again using a syntax analagous tothe URL element:

    <user:@The+Mighty+Buzzard>

    <user:@#18>

    And that caused the elements to be removed, too. Again, to show what I had entered, in the preceding I have replaced each less-than character that I had typed with its named character entity: &lt; and each greater-than with &gt;

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