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copied!<blockquote> <p>First, the way I understand it, it's more appropriate to use numeric entities in an XHTML document, such as <code>&#034;</code> instead of <code>&quot;</code>, is that right?</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/dtds.html#a_dtd_Special_characters" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>&quot;</code> is also defined for XHTML.</a> So you can use both.</p> <blockquote> <p>Second, for my RSS XML feed, which entity type is correct? Named or numeric? I believe it's numeric, but see examples of both in my searches.</p> </blockquote> <p>Again, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-predefined-ent" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>&quot;</code> is also defined for XML.</a> So you can use both.</p> <blockquote> <p>Third, which of the following is correct for entities inside inline JavaScript?</p> </blockquote> <p>The second one is correct since a plain <code><</code> is not allowed inside an attribute value declaration (but <code>></code> is).</p> <hr> <p><strong>Edit</strong> Now that you refined your question:</p> <p>I would use a charset that contains all characters I need. So if you want to be able to use almost any character, use Unicode and encode the characters with UTF-8.</p> <p>Thereby you can encode any character with UTF-8 directly and have no need to use character references for characters other than the special characters of XML (at least <code>&</code>, <code>></code>, <code>"</code> and <code>'</code>).</p> <p>And here you have the free choice between the named or numeric character references. Use what you like better or what your programming language uses/prefers.</p>

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