SGML, HTML және XML құжаттарындағы таңбалық анықтамалар

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In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference. This article lists the character entity references that are valid in HTML and XML documents. A character entity reference refers to the content of a named entity. An entity declaration is created in XML, SGML and HTML documents (before HTML5) by using the <!ENTITY name "value"> syntax in a Document type definition (DTD).

The XHTML DTDs explicitly declare 253 entities (including the 5 predefined entities of XML 1.0) whose expansion is a single character, which can therefore be informally referred to as "character entities". These (with the exception of the &apos; entity) have the same names and represent the same characters as the 252 character entities in HTML 4.0. Also, by virtue of being XML, XHTML documents may reference the predefined &apos; entity, which is not one of the 252 character entities in HTML 4.0. Additional entities of any size may be defined on a per document basis. However, the usability of entity references in XHTML is affected by how the document is being processed:

Legacy abbreviated character entities (without the final colon) inherited from HTML 2.0 (and still supported in HTML 5.0) are not supported in XML 1.0 and XHTML; the trailing semicolon must be present in all entity references used in XML and XHTML documents. If the XHTML document is read by a conforming HTML 4.0 processor, then only the 252 HTML 4.0 character entities may safely be used. The use of &apos; or custom entity references may not be supported and may produce unpredictable results (it is recommended to use the numerical character reference &#39; instead). If the document is read by an XML parser that does not or cannot read external entities, then only the five built in XML character entities can safely be used, although other entities may be used if they are declared in the internal DTD subset. However, modern XML parsers recognize and implement a builtin cache for SGML references to DTDs used by all standard versions of HTML, XHTML, SVG and MathML, without needing to parse and process the external DTD via their URL and without needing to process entities defined in an internal DTD subset of the document. If the document is read by an XML parser that does read external entities and does not implement a builtin cache for well known DTDs, then the five built in XML character entities (and numeric character references) can safely be used. The other 248 HTML character entities can be used as long as the XHTML DTD is accessible to the parser at the time the document is read. Other entities may also be used if they are declared in the internal DTD subset and the XML processor can parse internal DTD subsets. HTML 5.0 parsers cannot process XHTML documents, and it's impossible to define a fully validating DTD for HTML5 documents encoded with the XHTML syntax (notably it's impossible to validate all attributes names, notably "data *" attributes); as well it's still impossible to fully validate (with W3C standard schemas for XML, such as XSD or relax NG) HTML5 documents represented in the XHTML syntax, and for now a custom validator specific to HTML 5.0 is required. Because of the special &apos; case mentioned above, only &quot;, &amp;, &lt;, and &gt; will work in all XHTML processing situations.