Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] pagemaster and < > chars

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:37, Matthew McNaney wrote:
> I have two versions of the parse functions.
> 
> For the characters <, >, & :
> 
> Normal makes the characters &lt; &rt; and &amp;
> Unicode version makes them &#x003c; , &#x003e;, and &#x0026;
> 
> Which should be the final commit?

Matt,
I prefer the Unicode hex entity to the named entity.

Unicode hex entities:
    + Better support in browsers
    + Ability to display more characters
    + Standard format for entity string (easier to test for)
    - Syntax not as widely used as named entities

Named entities:
    + Syntax known by most website developers
    - String length varies with name (harder to test for)
    - Not all SGML named entities are supported by browsers

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