Re: Docs error?

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From: Stas Bekman
Subject: Re: Docs error?
Date: 13:57 on 26 Apr 2005

Geoffrey Young wrote:
> 
> Carl Johnstone wrote:
> 
>>On:
>>http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/client/browserbugs/browserbugs.html
>>
>>
>>It talks about browsers misreading URLs like:
>>
>>http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&reg=foobar
>>
>>Presuming this is within a HTML page e.g.:
>>
>><a href="http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&reg=foobar">; ...
>>
>>then the actual problem is that the & has not been changed into a HTML
>>entity - so what you should do is:
>>
>><a href="http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&amp;reg=foobar">; ...
> 
> 
> yeah, I think that's right.  at least if you run the first HTML example
> throught the w3c validator you'll get error messages left and right until it
> looks like the second example.

Beg your pardon? Have you looked at the HTML source code? it goes:

<a 
href="http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&amp;reg=foobar">http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&amp;reg=foobar</a>;


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Docs error?
Carl Johnstone 11:11 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Geoffrey Young 13:13 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 13:57 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Geoffrey Young 14:05 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 14:16 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Geoffrey Young 14:22 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 14:31 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Steve Hay 14:35 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 14:43 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Carl Johnstone 16:01 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 16:16 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Stas Bekman 03:50 on 10 May 2005

Re: Docs error?
Trond Michelsen 14:56 on 26 Apr 2005

Re: Docs error?
Ron Savage 23:51 on 26 Apr 2005