XML/HTML special character codes

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Is there an official name for the character codes, the codes that represent & as & in order to differentiate between the text character and the coding use of it, used in XML and HTML content?

Also, are these part of the XML or HTML standard, or a third party standard? And, is there an official site you can point me to about them?

amp-what.com is a good place to look up character entities.

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annakata · Accepted Answer · 2009-01-29 16:09:12Z

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Character entity references

a number of these are defined in the HTML standard linked above

answered Jan 29, 2009 at 16:09

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phihag · Accepted Answer · 2009-01-29 16:13:52Z

They are called character entity references and defined with slightly varying details(only relevant for exotic ones) in XML, SGML and HTML.

Wikipedia has a nice overview, whereas the W3C provides the complete list.

Roy Peleg · Accepted Answer · 2009-01-29 16:13:14Z

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XHTML Character Entity Reference

HTML Entities

answered Jan 29, 2009 at 16:13

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