Re: href="http://www.xyz.com/abc&def" is not valid???

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:33:56 -0400 (EDT), Hendrik Dilling
(rabbadak@shang.de) wrote:
> The validator seems to take URL's as part of the HTML code, so I get in
> trouble validating links which include the character "&".
> 
> Would yo be so kind and correct this "bug", or is there a good reason
> for doing this?

This is not a bug.  See:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/1999JulSep/0149.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/1999JulSep/0142.html
etc...

David

L. David Baron    Sophomore, Harvard (Physics)    dbaron@fas.harvard.edu
Links, SatPix, CSS, etc.     <URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ >
WSP CSS AC                      <URL: http://www.webstandards.org/css/ >

Received on Tuesday, 5 October 1999 14:58:41 UTC