- From: David Jensen <david@dajensen-family.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 07:18:52 -0500
- To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
Jelks Cabaniss wrote: > 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 > > ∓. If I run it again, I get ∓mp;. Check the date of Tidy, you may have a slightly older version. > I think you mean that it replaces '&' with '&'. I had a version from last year that also dropped the a in '&' but the version I downloaded in the past week works fine. > > 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. '&' 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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