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List:       freebsd-doc
Subject:    Re: Bad vinum html page
From:       Hiten Pandya <hiten () unixdaemons ! com>
Date:       2002-12-27 19:15:57
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Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:06:12AM +1030 I heard the voice of
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
>>>This can be solved by using single quotes e.g: <a href='...'>,
>>>because the &sektion is thought of as an entity by the parser.
>>
>>Hmm.  THe use of & in URLs is pretty common.  You'd think that the
>>standards people would have made some judgment on that.
> 
> 
> Actually, the general solution is to encode the '&'s properly as
> '&amp;'s.  It's not something the "standards people" can handwave away,
> since '&' starts an entity reference in SGML, and you can't undo THAT
> without undoing SGML (and XML, for that matter).

Yea; Thanks for mentioning that!

I had the same problem when I was developing a Bio- site, and the 
whole site checked out fine with the validator, except for the 
ampersand characters.  I don't know why I forgot to mention that.

Cheers.

-- 
Hiten
hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org


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