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| author | link <link@localhost> | 2001-04-15 20:26:30 +0000 |
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| committer | link <link@localhost> | 2001-04-15 20:26:30 +0000 |
| commit | 864ccca72407d392dc415ce36a98f8f2ab4c9165 (patch) | |
| tree | df5b9a6fa9d55979f7f8ceadab4b83bc3b41a535 /htdocs/docs/errors.html | |
| parent | 6374ae4badeafe8a0607c66de6b5179fec8be54a (diff) | |
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Adding pointer to existing explanation of entity encoding in attribute values.
Thanks to Clemens Radl <clemens.radl@uni-tuebingen.de> for the catch.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/htdocs/docs/errors.html b/htdocs/docs/errors.html index 623645d..8f859b1 100755 --- a/htdocs/docs/errors.html +++ b/htdocs/docs/errors.html @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/base.css" /> <meta name="keywords" content="HTML, Hypertext Markup Language, Validation, W3C HTML Validation Service" /> <meta name="description" content="W3C's easy-to-use HTML validation service, based on an SGML parser." /> - <meta name="revision" content="$Id: errors.html,v 1.5 2001-03-28 19:00:57 gerald Exp $" /> - <meta name="modified" content="$Date: 2001-03-28 19:00:57 $" /> + <meta name="revision" content="$Id: errors.html,v 1.6 2001-04-15 20:26:30 link Exp $" /> + <meta name="modified" content="$Date: 2001-04-15 20:26:30 $" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000ee" vlink="#551a8b"> @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ problem: the inventors of CGI didn't think things through very carefully when they decided to use the '&' character as a separator between CGI arguments, because '&' has special - status in HTML. The only way to get around this is for the author + status in HTML. One way to get around this is for the author of the CGI program to use a different value between arguments, like ';' or '|', which would allow the link to be coded as <code><img src="http://site/cgi?opt1=val1;opt2=val2"></code> @@ -459,6 +459,11 @@ multiple characters can also be used so existing links using the '&' character will still work.) </p> + <p> + There is also a simple workaround described at <URL:<a + href="http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp">http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp</a>>. + Simply encode all your &'s as &amp; in attribute values. + </p> </li> </ul> </dd> @@ -548,7 +553,7 @@ src="http://validator.w3.org/images/vxhtml10" height="31" width="88" align="right" border="0" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" /></a> <a href="/feedback.html">Webmaster</a><br /> - $Date: 2001-03-28 19:00:57 $ + $Date: 2001-04-15 20:26:30 $ </address> </body> |