- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:45:14 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Cc: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>, <www-validator@w3.org>
* Karl Dubost wrote: >At 0:47 +0100 2002-07-11, Nick Kew wrote: >>On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Karl Dubost wrote: >>The validator is validating markup. The fact that "/" is reserved >>in URI (perfectly legal, but reserved) has no bearing on the >>validity of the HTML. If it was not perfectly legal, it would have that influence, but the Validator would not notice. XML Schema based XHTML Validation will do a little better... >Except that the validator on port 8001 do not react on a non-escape ampersand. > >In HTML 4.01 >http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2 > >"For example, to use the URI "http://host/?x=1&y=2" as a linking URI, >it must be written <A href="http://host/?x=1&y=2"> or <A >href="http://host/?x=1&y=2">." Did you try that case? >For the "/" is another problem as you said. But it could be a warning. It would be very misleading to a lot of people. If escaping is necessary, they will notice, since the link would not work as expected.
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