Entity References

A & M Records

• < and & are only used to start tags and entities

  • Good:

    <H1>O'Reilly &amp; Associates</H1>

  • Bad:

    <H1>O'Reilly & Associates</H1>

  • Good:

    <CODE>for (int i = 0; i &lt;= args.length; i++ ) { </CODE>

  • Bad:

    <CODE>for (int i = 0; i <= args.length; i++ ) { </CODE>

• Only the five predefined entity references are used

  • Good:

    • &

    • <

    • >

    • "

    • '

  • Bad:

    • ©

    • ®

    • &tm;

    • α

    • é

    •  

    • etc.

• Entity references must end with a semicolon.

  • < is good

  • &lt is bad