[Kiana] > <a href="http://bbc.botany.utoronto.ca/[...]?input=&max=2[...]">
[Lawrence] > By the way, you _do_ realize that your "&" characters should be escaped > as "&", don't you? [Sion] > No they shouldn't. They part of the url, which is (IIRC) a CDATA > attribute of the A element, not PCDATA. The W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/ disagrees with you. It accepts this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head><title>Test</title></head> <body> <p><a href="http://somewhere.com?a=1&b=2">link</a></p> </body></html> but rejects this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html><head><title>Test</title></head> <body> <p><a href="http://somewhere.com?a=1&b=2">link</a></p> </body></html> saying "cannot generate system identifier for general entity "b" [...] The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs". -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list