RE: Bug + fix for illegal ampersands and character entities from Bertilo Wennergren on 2001-02-20 (html-tidy@w3.org from January to March 2001)

From: Bertilo Wennergren <bertilow@hem.passagen.se>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:57:19 +0100
To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
Message-ID: <HBECLJECMMGNJGANOJEPOEEMCDAA.bertilow@hem.passagen.se>

Randy Waki:

> Bertilo Wennergren wrote:

> > If you can't do that, then just correct the code, as Tidy wants
> > you too, and be done with it.

> I think you may have misunderstood my intent.  Tidy issues an error
> message and generates correct HTML both before and after my proposed fix.
> It just that after, the correct HTML is more likely to reflect what the
> author originally intended.

OK. Is this what you meant?:

 Tidy sees: "id=1&lang=en".
 Tidy outputs: "id=1&lang;=en"
 But author probably meant: "id=1&amp;lang=en"
 So Tidy should output the last.

Now that seems reasonable. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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                          Bertilo Wennergren
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                         <bertilow@chello.se>
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