Re: Entities in alt and title text

On 31 Jul, 16:47, Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Of course they can happen with &#8217;, just pass it through an XML
tool that works on the entirely correct and specification-conformant
basis that &#8217; can be converted transparently to and from the
literal character "'" at the serializer's whim. Then you've entered
the domain where incorrect encodings will break the content.

*Anything* that works fine to begin with won't work if you first pass it
through something that breaks it.

XML doesn't "break" it. It does something entirely legal.

The risk here is that the world, and certainly not the web world,
isn't simple. Even if the OP thinks they're using a simple process,
how simple is it really? What happens when they post that code into a
blog engine? Through something that's collected by RSS and re-
distributed? Now there's an XML-based process that certainly does
hammer on numeric entities.


My TV is fragile. So I don't use a sledgehammer within striking distance.

A shame, but the Evil of TV is another matter 8-)

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