February 12, 2002 - Character Entity References | 2

Yehuda Shiran February 12, 2002
Character Entity References
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Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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An entity reference is a group of characters used in text as a substitute for another group of characters. There are several types of entity references. The most common is the single character entity reference, where a group of characters is used as a substitute for a single specific character that is also a markup delimiter in XML. For example, if an attribute must contain the ampersand sign (&), you can substitute the entity reference &
  • < is referenced by &
  • " is referenced by &