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Robin Cover wrote: > This makes the syntax valid, but unfortunately, only a few Web servers > will be able to handle this notation. The same engineers (apparently) > who have designed the software to generate the malformed URLs have > also designed the servers to grok ONLY raw (unescaped) ampersand. For > the notation you have offered, most processors will choke. So, as > a document author attempting to compose valid HTML/XML with links > of this kind - you're hosed. Note that this stricture applies only when you are trying to make well-formed XML that is also usable HTML. If you are only concerned with XML, then use & without fear, as any XML processor will do the right thing before passing the hyperlink to your application. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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