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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:53:17 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fixing &entity stuff in doc/
Message-ID:  <20020327075316.H30474@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020326221449.GD17467@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@freebsd.org on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:14:50AM %2B0200
References:  <20020326221449.GD17467@hades.hell.gr>

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On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:14:50AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Anyone with more
> sgml-foo than me that can enlighten me why "make lint" doesn't catch these
> (admittedly minor) sgml typos?

IIRC, it's because they're not necessary if the SGML parser can
disambiguate the entity's end without it.

    foo bar &someentity baz

and

    foo bar &someentity; baz

are equivalent.

    foo bar &someentitybaz

and=20

    foo bar&someentity;baz

are not.

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