fix(compiler-core): relax error on unknown entities

close #663

packages/compiler-core/src/errors.ts

@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ export const enum ErrorCodes {
   UNEXPECTED_NULL_CHARACTER,
   UNEXPECTED_QUESTION_MARK_INSTEAD_OF_TAG_NAME,
   UNEXPECTED_SOLIDUS_IN_TAG,
-  UNKNOWN_NAMED_CHARACTER_REFERENCE,
 
   // Vue-specific parse errors
   X_INVALID_END_TAG,
@@ -141,7 +140,6 @@ export const errorMessages: { [code: number]: string } = {
   [ErrorCodes.UNEXPECTED_QUESTION_MARK_INSTEAD_OF_TAG_NAME]:
     "'<?' is allowed only in XML context.",
   [ErrorCodes.UNEXPECTED_SOLIDUS_IN_TAG]: "Illegal '/' in tags.",
-  [ErrorCodes.UNKNOWN_NAMED_CHARACTER_REFERENCE]: 'Unknown entity name.',
 
   // Vue-specific parse errors
   [ErrorCodes.X_INVALID_END_TAG]: 'Invalid end tag.',

packages/compiler-core/src/parse.ts

@@ -820,8 +820,8 @@ function parseTextData(
 
     if (head[0] === '&') {
       // Named character reference.
-      let name = '',
-        value: string | undefined = undefined
+      let name = ''
+      let value: string | undefined = undefined
       if (/[0-9a-z]/i.test(rawText[1])) {
         for (
           let length = context.options.maxCRNameLength;
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ function parseTextData(
           if (
             mode === TextModes.ATTRIBUTE_VALUE &&
             !semi &&
-            /[=a-z0-9]/i.test(rawText[1 + name.length] || '')
+            /[=a-z0-9]/i.test(rawText[name.length + 1] || '')
           ) {
             decodedText += '&' + name
             advance(1 + name.length)
@@ -851,7 +851,6 @@ function parseTextData(
             }
           }
         } else {
-          emitError(context, ErrorCodes.UNKNOWN_NAMED_CHARACTER_REFERENCE)
           decodedText += '&' + name
           advance(1 + name.length)
         }