Re: validator and refc delimiter

Jukka

this works

http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?membername=tuluum&url=http%3A//www.l
ive365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi%3Fmembername%3Dtuluum&tm=1033561327384

this does not
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi?membername=tuluum&url=http%3A//w
ww.live365.com/cgi-bin/mini.cgi%3Fmembername%3Dtuluum&tm=1033561327384

live365 seems a fairly large concern as these things go....

jonathan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jukka Korpela" <jukka.korpela@tieke.fi>
To: "WAI List (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: validator and refc delimiter


>
> jonathan chetwynd wrote:
>
> > Anyone care to comment on when the issue of data in urls,
> > causing pages not to validate, will be cleared up?
>
> Which issue?
>
> > once again trawling through peepo.com and learningdifferently.com
> > and checking for accessibility issues.
>
> I don't think this is specifically accessibility related, but
> the problem you apparently refer to is caused by document errors:
> the use of "&" in contexts where it is followed by an alphabetic
> character but meant to stand for "&" itself. The fix is to use
> "&amp;" instead of "&". The validator's message is caused by the
> fact that when validating against an XHTML doctype, the terminating
> semicolon is required.
>
> This is one of the most common problems with validators, see
> http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
> and XHTML has just added a new feature to it.
>
> For example, a string like
> ...membername=tuluum&url=http...
> is doubly incorrect in XHTML: first, the entity reference is
> syntactically malformed (&url instead of &url;); second, it refers
> to an undefined entity. Validators report both errors. Using the correct
> ...membername=tuluum&amp;url=http...
> avoids both.
>
> --
> Jukka Korpela, senior adviser
> TIEKE Finnish Information Society Development Centre
> http://www.tieke.fi/
> Diffuse Business Guide to Web Accessibility and Design for All:
> http://www.diffuse.org/accessibility.html
>
>

Received on Thursday, 3 October 2002 11:06:50 UTC