- From: Paul McGarry <paulm@opentec.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:39:25 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Hello, I've been trying to determine whether unentified ampersands really are invalid in attributes in html 4. I've come to the conclusion that it isn't invalid, just heavily frowned upon. Nothing particularly interesting or new there to you guys I imagine, but in my experiments my fevered brain discovered that while the html validator marks unentified ampersands invalid, it is happy to generate such URLs itself and then display the W3 tick on it's page. Talk about double standards! In case you find this vaguely interesting you can see for yourself by visiting links from here: http://homepages.tig.com.au/~mcgarry/opera/ampersand/index.html And if it looks like I have too much time on my hands, I only wish that were true..... -- Paul McGarry mailto:paulm@opentec.com.au Systems Integrator http://www.opentec.com.au Opentec Pty Ltd http://www.iebusiness.com.au 6 Lyon Park Road Phone: (02) 9878 1744 North Ryde NSW 2113 Fax: (02) 9878 1755
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