- From: Harold A. Driscoll <harold@driscoll.chi.il.us>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:37:35 -0600
- To: Jens Elkner <elkner@usg.iff.fhg.de>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
At 00:11 22-01-00 , Jens Elkner wrote: >I just checked some pages with the w3 validator for HTML >4.01 strict and got an error for all anchors, which have an >"&" in the URI (e.g. on >AFAIK, & is allowed in URIs and should not be interpreted >as an single entity.So is it a tiny validator bug or did I miss >something???? Yes... & is a character allowed within a URI. No... this is not a validator bug. Perhaps, and apparently you have. The & character _is_ allowed within a URI. Ergo, whey you specify the URL to a browser, or to utilities such as lwp-request, it will work quite nicely. Within an HTML page, however, & is one of the characters that need to be specified in a special way (quoted). Ergo, when you express such a URL within an HTML file, such as within an HREF, you need to express any & as & (or &), just as you would anywhere else within the HTML file. Safe computing, /Harold -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Harold A. Driscoll mailto:Harold@Driscoll.Chi.IL.US #include <std/disclaimer> http://Driscoll.Chi.IL.US
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