Re: Bug(?) Report for Dave Raggett.

David Lee Powell <benfolks@xmission.com> wrote:

> When I ask TIDY to analyze my HTML, it issues messages complaining about
> every appearance of '&' in the link, looking like this:
> line 36 column 62 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&street"
>
> Is this a problem in TIDY, or is this kind of parameter passing outside
> the scope of HTML?

God, doesn't anyone consider for a moment that Tidy is RIGHT?!?

Yes, you must use &amp; instead of &, even in HREFs!
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Received on Wednesday, 19 January 2000 16:04:57 UTC