Re: Bug(?) Report for Dave Raggett.

From: <html-tidy@war-of-the-worlds.org> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:45:35 -0600 To: html-tidy@w3.org Message-ID: <OFA7B2E4DF.EEB02DA5-ON8625686B.0074398E@rfdinc.com> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.1 : Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:38:47 UTC

David Lee Powell <benfolks@xmission.com> wrote:

> When I ask TIDY to analyze my HTML, it issues messages complaining about
> every appearance of '&' in the link, looking like this:
> line 36 column 62 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&street"
>
> Is this a problem in TIDY, or is this kind of parameter passing outside
> the scope of HTML?

God, doesn't anyone consider for a moment that Tidy is RIGHT?!?

Yes, you must use &amp; instead of &, even in HREFs!
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