Re: W3C html validation issue

Zitat von Jani Taskinen <sniper@iki.fi>: > You're only supposed to change it in your HTML..NOT in the > browser's query line.. As well as in header() calls (as already stated in this thread) and in javascript calls: document.location.href = 'foo.php?bar=1&amp;var=2' won't work either. > On 22 Jul 2002, Walter A. Boring IV wrote: > > >Howdy, > > This may be a tad off topic, but it is related to how php deals with > >building the $_GET superglobal w/ query string vars. > > > >According to the W3C HTML validator, it is illegal to build a query > >string for a url such as > > > >foo.php?bar=1&myvar=2 > > ^^^^^^^^ > > > >They say you HAVE to use > >foo.php?bar=1&amp;myvar=2 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >in php's case it builds > >$_GET["bar"] = 1; > >$_GET["amp;myvar"] = 2; > > > >I don't know of ANYONE on the planet that builds query string vars in > >this way. Unless you do, your html pages will not validate through the > >W3C validator. > > > >The official W3c spec explanation is at > >http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp > > > > > >I think changing this could potentially break many sites. > >Does anyone know what other web languages do with &amp;myvar=2 ? > >I think the W3C validator is broken/wrong in this respect, and wanted to > >know what other folks think about it. Jan. -- http://www.horde.org - The Horde Project http://www.ammma.de - discover your knowledge http://www.tip4all.de - Deine private Tippgemeinschaft