From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re:   and nXML mode Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:45:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <31FB0752-BAB3-455A-B9F3-BA6948CE204A@traduction-libre.org> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7171"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:8aYC47UHHUNKwa8edEpDVUjSNTA= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 07:46:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mDh4L-0001jA-70 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:46:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59188 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDh4J-0001aB-QB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:46:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDh3X-0001a2-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:56466) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDh3U-00012i-1l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 01:45:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mDh3P-0000VC-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:45:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132444 Archived-At: >> Is there a reason why nXML mode refuses to consider   entities as >> legit in a document that starts with: >> >> >> > > If you view that as an XML document (which is what nXML deals with), > without any preconceived knowledge of HTML5, there is nothing to > suggest that   is legit. > > In XML, an entity can be defined inline within the doctype declaration: > > > ]> My understanding is that XML wants to be "parsable" without knowing anything about the schema being used, and that this notion of parsing includes conversion of `&;` entities, so basically XML only allows the 4 or 5 predefined/builtin entities and that's it. > I thought the recommended way to "do &bnsp;" in XML is to use an actual NBSP character (because XML can use utf-8). Stefan