Re: mailto and &

by "Donna M Smillie" <dms(at)zetnet.co.uk>

 Date:  Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:37:10 -0000
 To:  <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
 References:  localhost localhost2 mscounties
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Allred <webmaster(at)mscounties.com>

> At the following URL:
>
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/charset.html#h-5.3.
2
>
> I found this:
>
> "Authors should also use "&amp;" in attribute values since
character references are
> allowed within CDATA attribute values. "
>
> According to this, John's code should validate under HTML 4.0.
So what gives, is
> this a bug in the validator?

But if you read John's original email, you'll see that he said
that it DID validate when he used "&amp;".  According to him it
validates but doesn't work when he uses "&amp;" and works but
doesn't validate when he uses just "&".

Regards,
Donna
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