Re: HTML entities and the validator... from Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) on 2011-04-24 (www-validator@w3.org from April 2011)

From: Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:59:36 +0100
To: sierkb@gmx.de
CC: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>, public-qa-dev Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>, www-validator Community <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4DB41EB8.7010909@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

sierkb@gmx.de wrote:

 > OK. And what essence and lesson should I now take from this all and tell my customer? Tell him that when he wrote "&;" as part of his URL instead of "&amp;", he did no mistake by writing such a character string construct, but should not do so? Why should he not do so and instead should better write "&amp;", while the validator is saying to him "valid"?

Because the validator would also not complain if your customer
wrote "true" where he meant "false".

Philip Taylor

Received on Sunday, 24 April 2011 13:07:09 UTC