Re: Docs error?

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Geoffrey Young wrote:
>>Oh, I see, I thought you were talking a bug in the docs building system.
>>
>>But if you write:
>>
>>  'http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&reg=foobar'.
>>
>>There is no problem whatsover. Since there is no &reg here.
> 
> 
> exactly :)
> 
> 
>>Since when unescaped & in the QUERY_STRING part of the URL are not allowed?
> 
> 
> I dunno the specifics, but if you try using the w3c validator you end up
> with something like this
> 
>   reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
> 
>   <a href="http://example.com/foo.pl?foo=bar&reg=foobar">is this valid?</a>
> 
>   If you meant to include an entity that starts with "&", then you should
>   terminate it with ";". Another reason for this error message is that you
>   inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an "&" character just
>   before this text.
> 
> I swear last time I checked my own html there was a pointer to the
> appropriate rfc, but I guess not.

OK, in which case it must be some relatively recent change, since an 
unescaped & in the QUERY_STRING was a valid separator. A pointer to the 
relevant RFC would be nice so we can add that to the URL that started this 
thread.

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