Re: equal sign in URIs reported as error from Saqib Ali on 2004-03-10 (www-validator@w3.org from March 2004)

From: Saqib Ali <saqib@seagate.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:23:08 -0800 (PST)
To: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de>
Cc: liam@htmlhelp.com, www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.55.0403100721040.10719@sjgcs1.stsj.seagate.com>

hmmm, i think the error is due to & in your URL.

Just use &amp; instead of & , and everything should work fine.

Here is what is happening:
'&' signifies the begining of of an entity (e.g. &nbsp; &amp; &gt; &lt;
etc), and your URL reads:

....&delmonth....

The validator think &delmonth is an entity, but it is an undefined entity
by the HTML DTD.

Saqib Ali
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote:

>
> 1.      Line 55, column 51: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
>   ...4<br /><a href="?func=delete&delmonth=Jan&delyear=2004"><span
> class="linkstyl
>                                           ^
> please repair it or cover this in the faq
>
> regards, Lars
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 10 March 2004 10:38:50 UTC