Bug 42041

Summary: Refactor the entity parser to handle new entities needed by MathML 3
Product: WebKit Reporter: François Sausset <sausset>
Component: MathMLAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: abarth, ap, jchaffraix
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Mac (Intel)   
OS: OS X 10.6   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 3251    

Description François Sausset 2010-07-11 01:08:59 PDT 
The w3c published a new recommendation for entity names: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-entity-names/.
MathML 3 should implement all these entities and HTML 5 only a subset.
However, the actual entity parser cannot handle these new entities.

Thus, the entity parser should be rewritten in the following way (see discussion on the mailing list):
- use a prefix tree instead of a hash table (faster and handle entity names as long as wanted)
- handle entities associated to combined Unicode characters
- solve the conflict with XHTML 1.0 about &rangle; and &langle; (see w3c webpage above)
Comment 1 Adam Barth 2010-08-05 20:39:59 PDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43595 ***