Known HTML Character Entity Reference, with XHTML 1.1 DOCTYPE Declaration

Test

© is rendered as

©

© is rendered as

©

The innerHTML of the list above is:

About the first dd element:

• [There is no child.]

Expected Result

Conforming XHTML 1.0 User Agent

Both references are treated as COPYRIGHT SIGNs.

Conforming XHTML Family User Agent

The character reference (later) is treated as a COPYRIGHT SIGN.

A user agent that reads external entities (or that has builtin knowledge on the XHTML 1.1 document type) will treat the entity reference (former) as a COPYRIGHT SIGN.

A user agent that does not read the external entity in which the entity declaration for the general entity copy (nor have any builtin knowledge on the document type) will render it as a sequence of six characters: ©.

Discussion

See a SuikaWiki article on entity references in XHTML documents.