Re: Unkown entity from Jouni Heikniemi on 2002-03-21 (www-validator@w3.org from March 2002)

From: Jouni Heikniemi <jth@dns.mikrobitti.fi>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:27:39 +0200 (EET)
To: Sascha Carlin <sc@itst.org>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.21.0203210924090.13023-100000@dns.mikrobitti.fi>

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Sascha Carlin wrote:

> It would be great if Validator had an option to switch of the parsing
> of URL's in order to hide the warnings about "unkown entity x", where
> x is a URL parameter.

It doesn't have switches for ignoring the other common errors either, so
why would this be a special case? Rather fix your urls by replacing the
ampersands with &amp; entities: href="http://www...cgi?foo=1&amp;bar=2"

Regards,

Jouni

Received on Thursday, 21 March 2002 02:27:42 UTC