ampersands in URL as attribute value causing problems?

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Subject: ampersands in URL as attribute value causing problems?
From: Phillip Rhodes <spamsucks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:40:46 -0400

I am down in the dumps about this. Thanks for any help.

I have an well formed xhml document. In the document, I have "img" elements that have a "src" attribute. The attribute value of the "src" attribute is a URL. The URL has ampersands in it. For it to be a valid XML document, all the ampersands are escaped as &

The URL's do not work properly if they have the ampersands escaped. They work fine if they are unescaped.

http://test?x=x&x=1&x=2 		works fine
http://test?x=x&amp;x=1&amp;x=2     Does not work

My question is, how can I represent a URL in xhtml without the ampersands being escaped and have it still be valid xml? Should I consider running my xhtml document through a transformation that will unescape the ampersands?

As an aside, I am using JDOM. It is a library that facilitates building xml documents. Thanks

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ampersands in URL as attribute value causing problems? Phillip Rhodes - Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:41:52 -0400 (EDT) <= Julian Reschke - Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:58:54 -0400 (EDT) David Carlisle - Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:30:06 -0400 (EDT)

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