Re: Forms output URLs with &

Rob Lanphier a écrit :
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> Someone needs to take the lead here and implement semicolon as the
> preferred separator.  

I wholeheartedly agree; especially given that when you move to XHTML
and real XML parsers, using ampersands causes real trouble since it
is taken for an entity.

>It seems that Amaya, being a W3C reference
> implementation, is the best candidate.  That will hopefully, in turn, cause
> the CGI libraries out there to start implementing semicolon as an alternate
> separator.

Agreed again, except that at least one widely used CGI library already
supports the semicolon (I think it is Lincoln Stein's perl library)

Received on Friday, 7 April 2000 07:56:05 UTC