- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:38:26 +0000
- To: no <nospam2@vajira.co.uk>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 17:25 +0100, no wrote:
> 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!).
>
> This is a validation mistake
No, it is not.
> because the ampersand is part of a ULR for an asp page with more than
> one variable.
In a URL in a plain text document you would write:
../cesta/cesta.asp?UC_AddId=CUE&vn_url=../temas/index.asp?tema=nino
... but this is an HTML document and & has special meaning, so you must
encode it in HTML form:
../cesta/cesta.asp?UC_AddId=CUE&vn_url=../temas/index.asp?tema=nino
--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."
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