- From: OJ Tibi <oj@web-rats.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 13:32:52 +0800
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
hi! i was just revalidating my site (mbc.web-rats.net) and found out errors in my document: a.. Line 163, column 200: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "PHPSESSID" ....<p><a href="newsarticle.php?NewsNo=4&PHPSESSID=76defb183668fb9459aa86998b43ec An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs". Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as "&" (even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon or your entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following text. Also keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; and æ are different characters. Note that in most documents, errors related to entity references will trigger up to 5 separate messages from the Validator. Usually these will all disappear when the original problem is fixed. ? notice that the strange part above is that the server-generated document created a PHP session ID for the embeded anchor's hyperlink reference attribute. this usually happens if the browser (in the validator's case, user-agent) does not support cookies for session management. please send me comments about this topic. very much appreciated. Oliver John V. Tibi MakatiBizClub Webmaster http://mbc.web-rats.net/ mbc@web-rats.net Philippine Khan Online The Barkada's All Here! http://www.khan.com.ph/
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