- From: Malcolm Austen <malcolm.austen@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 12:20:47 +0100 (BST)
- To: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk>
- cc: Amaya List <www-amaya@w3.org>
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Alan J. Flavell wrote: + The archive contains a message + http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-amaya/1999AprJun/0082.html I don't recall the message and the archive has just timed out on me ... + I recently got involved elsewhere in a discussion of this issue, i.e + when forming an HREF to a URL that contains an ampersand, the need to + represent the ampersand as & . In general, omitting to do so will + result in failure of HTML syntax validation (on the grounds of an + undefined entity), as I'm sure is well known. But after writing & + the HREF no longer works correctly in Amaya. Surely, in a URL an ampersand is escaped as %26 ? & is the escape in html and the (quoted) string value in an href isn't html. Does it need to be escaped in the URL? - I haven't checked the rules but don't the quotes protect it from the (html) "&" escape mechanism? ... but maybe I missed something obvious and am talking rubbish 8-) regards, Malcolm. Malcolm.Austen@OUCS.ox.ac.uk http://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcolm/
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