[Cialug] How many people are using Python ?

Zachary Kotlarek zach at kotlarek.com
Tue Dec 30 13:37:13 CST 2008


On Dec 30, 2008, at 12:51 PM, Colin Burnett wrote:

> It's not a parsing issue.  Use the XHTML strict DOCTYPE and it parses
> just fine.  It literally eats them and puts nothing in the DOM.
> "foo—foo" becomes "foofoo".

I see what you mean -- I figured it was just skipping an undefined  
character entity, but it throws parsing errors if the entity really is  
undefined.

Interestingly though it does work for the predefined entities -- &  
makes it into the DOM even when — is eaten.

	Zach

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