Richard Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Sion Arrowsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [ ... ] >>>By the way, you _do_ realize that your "&" characters should be escaped >>>as "&", don't you? >> No they shouldn't. They part of the url, which is (IIRC) a CDATA >> attribute of the A element, not PCDATA. >It is CDATA but ampersands still need to be escaped.
I'll take back that "shouldn't" as per Fredrik's post. Maybe they *should* be escaped, but they don't *need* to be. I've never, and never seen, anyone doing that in a decade of writing cgi; a straw poll of peers suggests that the majority would write the former; and I've never encountred a browser getting tripped up by it. I suppose you might need it if you've got parameters called quot or nbsp, but it's hardly the most broken way of writing HTML. -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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