On 08/01/2011 05:09 PM, Zaid Amireh wrote: > Citation please. ISO 8879, RFC 1866, REC-html40
In particular, see the note in 8.2.1 of RFC 1866. Consider: <a href="http://example.com/ohms_law.cgi?ohm=2&=5";> What is the actual value of the URI in the link? Now consider: <a href="http://example.com/ohms_law.cgi?ohm=2&=5";> <a href="http://example.com/ohms_law.cgi?ohm=2&amp=5";> Each is clear and unambiguous. See also <URL: http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html >. > RFC1630 (and RFC1738 and RFC1808 for that matter) states that '&' is > safe to use and all of those RFC actually don't even mention & Those RFCs are about URIs, not about HTML. When a URI is encoded in HTML, HTML escaping rules must be used. Do you also think that ' and " should be allowed in href attributes without escaping? ~Chris -- Chris Maden, text nerd <URL: http://crism.maden.org/ > Those who learn from history are doomed to become cynics. _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
