- From: Claus Färber <list-w3c-html-validator@faerber.muc.de>
- Date: 06 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> schrieb/wrote: > Hendrik Dilling 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 "&". The URL _is_ part of the HTML document. For more information see the FAQ reerences to which were already posted. > RFC 2396 [1] defines "&" as reserved character: > > 2.2. Reserved Characters > reserved = ";" | "/" | "?" | ":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" | > "$" | "," This reference has absolutly nothing to do with the question. It defines which characters are reserved within URIs for special purposes: E.g. ":" is used to separate protocol and URI, "@" separates user from host names, "/" is the hierarchy separator -- and ";" and "&" are used to separate parameters. Still they are valid URI characters. But "...?xyz&abc" and "...?xyz%26abc" are different URIs: In the first case there are two parameters "xyz" and "abc", in the second case there's only one "yxz&abc". This has ABSOLUTLY NOTHING to do with the fact that character references are escaped in HTML attribute values. -- Claus Andre Faerber <http://www.faerber.muc.de> PGP: ID=1024/527CADCD FP=12 20 49 F3 E1 04 9E 9E 25 56 69 A5 C6 A0 C9 DC
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