- From: Thorben Thuermer <r00t@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:12:48 +0200
- To: "Jon Hill" <jon.hill@glg.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:30:08 +0100 "Jon Hill" <jon.hill@glg.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear all, > The following URL is for a page that validates fine. > http://www.geologyrocks.co.uk/diagrams.php?page=1 there is no '&' there... > Error: > ----snip---- > Line 93, column 70: cannot generate system identifier for general entity > "type" > > ...e="redirect" > value="index.php?page=2&type=d&keywords=&location=&taken_by=&sub '&' is simply a reserved character in html (sgml,xml...) (for entitity references) and may not appear unencoded anywhere. (which indeed conflicts with the usual way to encode cgi parameters) i didn't believe it myself, but i have yet to see a browser that doesn't handle "index.php?page=2&type=d&keywords=&location=" ... correctly. (yet i also have yet to see a larger site that does it like that) > Jon -- Thorben (who just wanted to see if he can post to this list now or not...)
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