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I think you'll find that the example in slide 23 will result in "Ben & Jerry's" showing in the aggregator (I think ' is entity in XML but not in HTML -- the FreeRoller guys had trouble with this for a while):

From the example:

feed: Ben & Jerry's
html: Ben & Jerry's
screen: Ben & Jerry's

Perhaps what you want:

feed: Ben & Jerry's
html: Ben & Jerry's
screen: Ben & Jerry's

Phillip: what browser are you running?  How does the following render?

  Ben & Jerry's

Then, view source on THIS page, and look at the underlying HTML.  It appears to work just fine on Mozilla and IE...

Looks fine in Safari v1.0.

Arg!  Why can't life be simple?  ' is not in  HTML 4, but is in XHTML. 

"Ben & Jerry's" works in both XHTML and HTML 4 because there really isn't any need to escape a quote outside of an attribute.  For that reason, the simpler "Ben & Jerry's" will also work just fine.

What I was searching for was a simple rule that can be applied universally.

/me wonders if Aaron is going to suggest "'"...  ;-)

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"Mind encoding issues", hmmm.  When I first read that phrase, I parsed it as "mind-encoding issues" (something like mime encoding, but for trans-humans preparing for upload???) before I read the word "mind" as a verb.  :-)

Dave: so... Mindreef doesn't mean "watch out for those places where ships tend to wreck", but instead means "a place where you can find some wrecked minds"?

;-)

Sam: LOL! You know, I think of a reef as a living artifact produced as a result of the work of a group of cooperating entities, rather than something on which a ship gets wrecked.  I didn't know you were one of those glass-half-empty guys.

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