[Bug 6534] validator throws error on valid html

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6534


Austin Guthals <aguthals@shoom.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |




--- Comment #2 from Austin Guthals <aguthals@shoom.com>  2009-02-06 18:35:22 ---
I read the FAQ.

The Faq is not correct either.

<a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">Test</a>

is perfectly valid because &copy will not get translated to the copyright sign
in the browsers url.  You only need to encode ampersands if they will be
displayed in the content of your page.

Here is how it would work

<a
href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">foo.cgi?chapter=1&amp;section=2&amp;copy=3&amp;lang=en</a>

Here the characters that will be painted in the content of the page must be
encoded, however the url does not need to be encoded.

If I am mistaken, please give me an example of this link 


<a
href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">foo.cgi?chapter=1&amp;section=2&amp;copy=3&amp;lang=en</a>

that validates with your checker and that works with a web server that is
expecting '&' to delimit named parameters.


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