From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Dec 27 11:17:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B5837B401; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:17:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B7A243F18; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hiten@unixdaemons.com) Received: from unixdaemons.com (pc3-nfds1-5-cust242.nott-b.cable.ntl.com [80.5.196.242]) (authenticated bits=0) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.6/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gBRJH8sB052371; Fri, 27 Dec 2002 14:17:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E0CA6ED.4050208@unixdaemons.com> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 19:15:57 +0000 From: Hiten Pandya User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Farhad Saberi Subject: Re: Bad vinum html page References: <3E0B2FF5.30505@unixdaemons.com> <20021226223611.GB21641@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021227040739.GC98049@over-yonder.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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: , >>>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