My apologies--I am using XHTML (so used to just typing "HTML" I forgot the "X"). Anyway, I read what you mentioned, and I guess it is either that or what I am doing now, but my current method does not seem all that bad. -----Original Message----- From: David Dorward,,, [mailto:david@us-lot.org] On Behalf Of David Dorward Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 12:30 To: iNaNimAtE Cc: www-validator@w3.org Subject: Re: Ampersands in URLs On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 06:57:41PM -0700, iNaNimAtE wrote: > > I am having a problem validating with an ampersand in a URL. In normal HTML > I encode it into &, but in JavaScript, I have to keep it as "&" making > the page invalid. In HTML, <script> elements contain CDATA and ampersand characters are perfectly OK. It is a lot easier to help debug problems when presented with an example of troublesome code, but I'll hazard a guess that you are in fact using XHTML and not HTML. If so, then I draw your attention to section 4.8 of the XHTML 1.0 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8 You could encode your ampersands as & even inside <script> blocks in XHTML - although this would break HTML computability so you wouldn't be able to serve your XHTML under the text/html content-type. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukReceived on Saturday, 23 April 2005 19:45:39 UTC
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