- From: Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:38:22 -0400
- To: Paul McGarry <paulm@opentec.com.au>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 03:39:25AM -0400, Paul McGarry wrote:
> 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.
No, it really is invalid.
> 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
That's a known bug, #6 on the current todo list:
http://validator.w3.org/todo.html
$Date: 2000/04/28 09:20:01 $
| 6. bug fix: escape '&' to '&' in URI: item in validator
| results (sample)
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