- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 14:13:29 -0700
- To: "Nathan Miller" <webpage@depere.k12.wi.us>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Hi, this isn't a bug in the validator; the correct way to encode ampersands in CDATA (which is what URIs are, when included in HTML pages) is to use &. Using & where you have & will work on nearly any browser out there -- see the archives of this list for details. --Kynn At 04:55 PM 10/08/1999 -0400, Nathan Miller wrote: >I am writing to inform you of a bug with the validator. >When validating a page with a URI containing and ampersand (for cgi purposes), the validator returns an error saying that (the variable name following the ampersand) is not a valid entity. >The validator should not look for entities in (URLs, URIs, URNs, etc.) because (to the best of my knowledge) the ampersand is not used to indicate an entity when dealing with URIs. (% is used). > >Please fix this bug. > >thanks, > >Nathan J. Miller >---------------- >Member of the Web Standards Project >Member of the WSP Grassroots Action Comittee >USDD Webmaster > > > -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Catch the web accessibility meme! http://aware.hwg.org/
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