RE: For Dave Ragget, tidy bug? from Jelks Cabaniss on 2000-10-12 (html-tidy@w3.org from October to December 2000)

From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:47:52 -0400
To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
Message-ID: <NBBBICMNIPCICMKJECCBOEPDDNAA.jelks@jelks.nu>

Alf Warnock wrote:

> I downloaded the latest version of tidy because I had a problem with the
> earlier versions I had on my machine. When I run tidy, it replaces & with
> &mp;.  If I run it again, I get &mp;mp;.

I think you mean that it replaces '&' with '&amp;'.

> I greatly appreciate having this program. Thank you for your work. I hope
> you can fix the bug.

It's not a bug, it's required for well-formed markup.  '&amp;' is the entity
used to represent the ampersand in markup, both in content and in URLs.
This has been discussed here and other lists numerous times.

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/Jelks

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