XHTML Illegal Characters and entities
2004 August 18
XHTML Illegal Characters and entities
This week I've been getting reaquainted with the illegal characters and entities in XHTML Strict. It seems that only the following entities are valid in XHTML Strict
&– ampersand ( & )<– less than, open bracket ( < )>– greater than, close bracket ( > )"– double quote ( ” ) – non-breaking space (hard space) ( )
These MUST be encoded using the entity or the ASCII code. Additionally, all other special characters that don't appear on the keyboard need to be encoded using their ASCII codes. So I have few pages to fix to have them properly validate.