workaround for && in xdocs/*

[Helena Edelson]

this workaround works for links with "&" in the URL when the link is in xdocs/ here is an example of one I used: http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?url=""> both in site.xml and in xdocs/translate.xml type content files. I am not sure why it won't work for your dev but I am using F7 not F8 If this helps anyone I also successfully used:     && in place of && in xslt files also for those bleak times I have to rely on a small _javascript_. &amp won't work neither will   or any of those. just get a good ascii ref to keep the validators happy. Helena Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: I wrote: >> >>>I just ran my forrest files through a validator, and to my dismay I see >>>that there's a problem. >>> >>>In site.xml, some of the URLs I enter have an "&" character in them. I >>>write these as HTML entities; otherwise site.xml won't validate. Helena Edelson wrote: > concat and replace & with &#38 your url's. If I use "&" instead of & in the url in site.xml, I have the same problem. If I use "&", I get & resulting html output. That works and that validates, so that will be my workaround in the meantime. David Crossley wrote: > Perhaps it is this ... > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-241 > "character entities (e.g. ampersand) are expanded again for href or src attributes" That is indeed the issue. But I didn't understand the resolution; does that mean I need to use 0.8-dev to get the fix incorporated? Ross, I will assume that since David's issue tracked this, I don't need to raise a separate issue on the tracker.