Validator doesn't complain about & in meta content from Edmondson, Michael on 2005-09-27 (www-validator@w3.org from September 2005)

From: Edmondson, Michael <Michael.Edmondson@turner.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:19:27 -0400
To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BF5F3DAF.1E7EC%Michael.Edmondson@turner.com>

Sample HTML
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <title>Testing</title>
    <meta name="Title" content="I like XML & XSL!">
    <meta name="Description" content="I like M&Ms.  Yum!">
</head>
<body>
    ...
</body>
</html>


Expectation
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The Validator should complain about ampersands not represented as entities.


Actual Results
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The Validator only complains about the second mistake, finding an invalid
entity.


Question
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Are my expectations faulty?  Or is the Validator?

Received on Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:03:28 UTC