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Error message about unescaped ampersand is mistakenly escaped

From: Thomas Rutter <TRutter@groupwise.swin.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:01:41 +1100
Message-Id: <499EB7C2.5951.00B1.0@groupwise.swin.edu.au>
To: <www-validator@w3.org> 
Text of error message received:

&amp; did not start a character reference. (&amp; probably should have been escaped as &amp;amp;.).


I believe this should read:

'&' did not start a character reference. ('&' probably should have been escaped as '&amp;'.).


For an example please see http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=HTML+3.2&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.606 

Cheers
-- 

 
Thomas Rutter
Library Web Coordinator, Information Resources
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne VIC Australia
Email: trutter@swin.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9214 4885
Received on Tuesday, 24 February 2009 01:24:40 GMT

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