- From: Fred H Olson <fholson@cohousing.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 06:51:05 -0500 (CDT)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On 17 Apr 2013 Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>Alternatively, ignore the messages.
>
>The use of "&", when followed by a name, which is not followed by a
>semicolon, is a violation of HTML 4.01 rules. But it does not cause any
>actual harm. Browsers and search engines take the "&" as a data
>character, not as starting an entity reference, provided that the name
>is not an entity name as per HTML 4.01. This error recovery has been
>formally described and made mandatory in the HTML5 CR.
>
>Yucca
So should non entity uses of "&" (e.g. " Sam & Mary" ) be replaced
with "&" ?
Are there performance penalties if they are left in?
If it becomes common to just leave them, should the validator
and the option to be configured to not report them?
Fred
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