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Re: Ampersand not permitted in AttValue

From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 19:28:03 +0300 (EEST)
To: Gabriele Fava <gabriele.fava@tiscalinet.it>
cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0208181927290.10309-100000@kruuna.Helsinki.FI> 

On 2002-08-17, Gabriele Fava uttered to www-html@w3.org:

>[...] but the ampersand "&" is a permitted, and commonly used character
>in URIs, with this constriction I can't put some types of links in a xml
>or xhtml document.

Then escape it. &amp; and you're go.
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