RE: eCommerce links-non compatible with Validator.

From: Kevin R. Phillips (kevin@audiodesigns.com)
Date: Wed, Mar 22 2000 

Message-Id: <v01530501b4feeba324e9@[205.214.163.163]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:46:58 -0800
To: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
From: kevin@audiodesigns.com (Kevin R. Phillips)
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: RE: eCommerce links-non compatible with Validator.


>> We won't be able
>> to change it to '&amp;' or else the link won't function.
>
>That is not correct. Decoding of the encoded & will be handled by the
>browser just as it handles decoding &amp; everywhere else. Until the & is
>properly html entity encoded you won't be able to claim the files are
>valid HTML 4.0.

Hi Christian,
Two questions then (and by the way thanks to ALL of you for your support):

*Are you saying that we can just change the & in the existing link to &amp;
and the ecommerce software should still detect the link as if it was still
only the & sign?

or

* Do we need to actually go into the core system that generates the syntax
for the product purchase links and custom modify it to issue the &amp;
instead of & in every link it issues (we did not create this software but
we can make code level changes)?

Thanks again,
Kevin
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