Re: LYNX-DEV SGML entities question

[Christopher R. Maden]

[Fote]
>       I tracked down that discussion, and noted when reviewing it
> that Lynx is not handling &#SPACE; or &#TAB;.  As an investor in the
> Goldfarb book, could you enlighten us on what other ones, of
> whatever type those are, there are?

From the productions quoted before, SPACE, RE, and RS are built-in;
extras must be defined in the SGML declaration.  The only ones defined
in HTML's SGML declaration are:

         FUNCTION
                  RE          13
                  RS          10
                  SPACE       32
                  TAB SEPCHAR  9

That's the whole list.  &#RS; should always be ignored[*]; &#RE;
should be treated equivalently to a newline.

(Investor?  Hell, no - I certainly couldn't afford it.  It belongs to
my employer.)

-Chris

[*]In the absence of shortref, which HTML does not use.  After short
references are resolved, all record starts are discarded, per clause
9.4 of ISO 8879.
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