Re: Docs error?

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


> 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&amp;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.

--Geoff

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

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Geoffrey Young 13:13 on 26 Apr 2005

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Stas Bekman 13:57 on 26 Apr 2005

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Geoffrey Young 14:05 on 26 Apr 2005

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Stas Bekman 14:16 on 26 Apr 2005

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Geoffrey Young 14:22 on 26 Apr 2005

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Stas Bekman 14:31 on 26 Apr 2005

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Steve Hay 14:35 on 26 Apr 2005

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Stas Bekman 14:43 on 26 Apr 2005

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Carl Johnstone 16:01 on 26 Apr 2005

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Stas Bekman 16:16 on 26 Apr 2005

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Stas Bekman 03:50 on 10 May 2005

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Trond Michelsen 14:56 on 26 Apr 2005

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