- From: Chris Ridd <C.Ridd@isode.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:29:27 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
> At 09:27 AM 7/10/97 -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > >At 9:41a -0400 07/10/97, Greg Marr wrote: > >If you do track it down, I'd be interested in seeing it. The > documentation > >at hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu speaks only of ampersands... > > The discussions were during this calendar year, and I doubt the > documentation has been updated at all in the last year. > > > > Are you saying that entity replacement shouldn't be performed on > > > attribute values? > > > >I'm saying it is not necessary to use entities for ampersands within > >an attribute value. > > The general gist of the discussion was that in order to be 100% > conformant, the & in the URL would have to escaped as sgml entities, > and that any ampersands not used as seperators would have to be url- > escaped. Joe English wrote a page about this called "CDATA Confusion" which was useful to me at least. It is at http://www.art.com/~joe/sgml/cdata.html. Chris
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