Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 19:15:57 +0000 From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Farhad Saberi <farhad.saberi@mail.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: Bad vinum html page Message-ID: <3E0CA6ED.4050208@unixdaemons.com> References: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> <20021226223611.GB21641@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021227040739.GC98049@over-yonder.net>
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Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:06:12AM +1030 I heard the voice of > Greg 'groggy' Lehey, and lo! it spake thus: > >>>This can be solved by using single quotes e.g: <a href='...'>, >>>because the &sektion is thought of as an entity by the parser. >> >>Hmm. THe use of & in URLs is pretty common. You'd think that the >>standards people would have made some judgment on that. > > > Actually, the general solution is to encode the '&'s properly as > '&'s. It's not something the "standards people" can handwave away, > since '&' starts an entity reference in SGML, and you can't undo THAT > without undoing SGML (and XML, for that matter). Yea; Thanks for mentioning that! I had the same problem when I was developing a Bio- site, and the whole site checked out fine with the validator, except for the ampersand characters. I don't know why I forgot to mention that. Cheers. -- Hiten hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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