[jdom-interest] Hexadecimal character references

Jason Hunter jhunter at servlets.com
Mon May 5 12:54:59 PDT 2003


> In XMLOutputter, character references should probably be heaxdecimal by
> default. This is how most people know and look up particular character
> codes. 

Really?  I see them in decimal a lot too.  For example, I searched
Google for "character entities site:w3.org" and the main result pages
(all HTML interestingly) use decimal.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32

-jh-



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