[JDEV] Problem with accentuation...

[Michael Wilson]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:24:44PM +0000, Michael Wilson wrote:
>> I still don't know why Jabber insists on unescaping all character
>> entities though.
> 
> Unless I misunderstood, there is a set of good reasons:
>     - you don't want to have to load and use a DTD to check those
>       entities (yes it's a major pain on top of SAX and would definitely
>       be too costly on the servers !).

If entities aren't specified, why are they being parsed at all? Something
like &blah; should just look like any other piece of text shouldn't it?
I definitely agree that there's no call for them at the program level,
but I see no reason why I shouldn't be able to send HTML snippets
containing entities in my messages without them mysteriously mutating.

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