[Bug 17418] New: & did not start a character reference and Errors involving fragile syntax constructs

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17418

           Summary: & did not start a character reference and Errors
                    involving fragile syntax constructs
           Product: Validator
           Version: HEAD
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5
        AssignedTo: mike+validator@w3.org
        ReportedBy: rasamassen@gmail.com
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


As explained in the non-normative section of HTML5 (obviously based on
normative sections),
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/introduction.html#syntax-errors, under "Errors
involving fragile syntax constructs":

The correct way to express the above cases is as follows:

<a href="?bill&ted">Bill and Ted</a> <!-- &ted is ok, since it's not a named
character reference -->
<a href="?art&amp;copy">Art and Copy</a> <!-- the & has to be escaped, since
&copy is a named character reference -->


Thus, the error "& did not start a character reference" should only appear when
the "&" precedes a named character reference.

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Received on Tuesday, 5 June 2012 15:31:52 UTC