Hi Quotes, ampersands, < , > and single quotes are reserved characters (entities).
Basically you should only use quotes within tags like <a href="blah.php">foo</a>. If you want to avoid problems with badly formed markup (XML for instance) then always use the entity version if the character e.g <a href="foo.php">"bar"</a> An XML parser would barf on <a href="foo.php">"bar"</a> as the quote char describes an attribute. This is "badly formed" markup. Reading material... http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html A simple search and replace will solve it for you Cheers James On 5/17/05, designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > How much do I need to bother about quotation marks etc being represented as > their 'proper' equivalent, eg ' as ', and so on? > > I am working on an extract from a writer's work and as I've cut and pasted a > lot of it, I've ended up with the horrific prospect of painstakingly going > through and changing all the quotes, apostrophes, dashes etc etc. (the > validator > shouts at the moment!) > > ?? > > Any help, utilities etc would be <strong>most</strong> welcome! > > :-) > > Thanks, > > Bob McClelland, > Cornwall (U.K.) > www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
