Re: Unkown entity

Måndag 18. mars 2002 02:45 skreiv Sascha Carlin:

> First of all, I'd like to say the Validator is a great tool. It helped me
> much improving my site. Although I know that the ampersand should not be
> used as a parameter indicator in URL's, most servers use it as this.

Ampersands *can* be used -- you just have to write it as &. It will 
still work (in all browsers), and the browser will send it as '&' to the 
server, so nothing else needs changing.

> It would be great if Validator had an option to switch of the parsing of
> URL's in order to hide the warnings about "unkown entity x",

The validators job is to check for validity, an un-escaped &'s *are* 
illegal in HTML and XML.

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Karl Ove Hufthammer