Re: Parsing HREFs? from Lachlan Hunt on 2006-02-19 (www-validator@w3.org from February 2006)

From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:47:46 +1100
To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
CC: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <43F8F592.3060406@lachy.id.au>

Liam Quinn wrote:
> I have updated the text at 
> http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp to also discuss 
> cases that are problems for modern browsers:
> 
>    <!-- This is invalid! --> <a
>    href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2&copy=3&lang=en">...</a>
> 
>    ... Since &lang; is the HTML entity for the
>    left-pointing angle bracket, some browsers also convert &lang=en to 
>    </=en ...

Although it technically should do that, I couldn't find any browser that 
actually does.  My tests [1] show that within href attributes generally 
only entity references from the ISO-8859-1 category, &quot, &amp, &lt 
and &gt from the Markup Significant category, and &apos (where 
supported) are recognised without the REFC.

[1] http://lachy.id.au/dev/markup/tests/html401/charref/syntax

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Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/

Received on Sunday, 19 February 2006 22:48:10 UTC