Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 and named entities

Hi Jirka,

I got some clarification from the vendor, and you are correct that not all named character entities will be considered incorrect.

In particular, it looks like the following five entities remain ok: <, >, &, &quote; and '

Thanks for the reply; it pushed me into checking further.

Dick
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On Oct 22, 2014, at 13:41, Jirka Kosek <> wrote:

> On 22.10.2014 18:48, Richard Hamilton wrote:
>> It looks as though the next version of epubcheck may reject epub3 files that use named character entities (&amp;, etc.).
> 
> Any source for this information?
> It's hard to believe that &amp; will be refused as it can't be written
> directly (same with &lt; and to some extent with &gt;, &quot; and &apos;).
> 
> 				Jirka
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