RE: Combining across markup? (Was: RE: sign for anti-neutrino - g ree k nu with diacritical line aboveworkaround ?)

From: Jon Hanna (jon@hackcraft.net)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 12:33:05 CDT

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    > Clarification, please. Does this mean that the code:
    >
    > <span lang=EN-GB >&#x3bd;</span><span lang=EN-GB
    > style='font-family:Cardo'>&#x304;</span>
    >
    > will be considered illegal due to the freestanding &#x304; ?

    Well leaving out the quotes around tokens is old-fashioned anyway, and I don't
    know if it will apply to HTML4.01 and earlier.

    As for modern markup, consider if instead of &#x304; you had &#x338;
    By the rules of XML that is treated as if the character U+0338 was there rather
    than the escape sequence.
    By the rules of Unicode the sequence U+003E, U+0338 is treated the same as the
    character U+226F.
    By the rules of XML replacing >&#x338; with U+226F would mean the document was
    no longer well-formed.

    So even without an explicit spec saying otherwise the above would be
    problematic. 

    -- 
Jon Hanna
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