- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 11:21:05 +0300
- To: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>, czibolya <l.czibolya@atomforum.hu>
2014-07-31 10:41, David Dorward wrote: > On 30 Jul 2014, at 10:31, czibolya wrote: > >> The character & in the query string of the address is not an error. It is >> just the separator. > > Please see the FAQ: http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-ampersand That entry is just a reference to a vintage document http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp which deals with HTML up HTML 4 only. The error message quoted relates to validating against HTML5. For HTML5, the issue is messy and varies from draft to draft. Currently, in W3C HTML5 LC, the description of HTML parsing (!) at http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#consume-a-character-reference seem to say, in a fairly complicated manner, that &sp_id=551 in an attribute value causes “parse error” – even though browsers are required to process it so that “&” is taken as just a data character. Yucca
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