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Old 12-20-2012, 12:56 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by dgatwood View Post
Warning: You should *not* use HTML entities like &eacute;. EPUB is based on XHTML, not HTML, and XHTML does not define any entities other than &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &apos;. and &quot;—&, <, >, ', and ", respectively.
Are you sure? I think that applies to XML, but XHTML adds some things on top of XML (or enforces XML syntax on HTML), among them, I believe, the definition of a good deal of entities.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...cters_in_XHTML
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