RE: [PHP] Why is the default value for arg_separator.output '&'?
| From: | Jared Williams | Date: | Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:26:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Why is the default value for arg_separator.output '&'? | ||
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>
> For documents to conform to the XHTML recommendation,
> ampersand characters much be encoded as &. The
> documentation for PHP recognises this. The same applies to
> HTML (with some exceptions that the session code will never
> encounter), although the PHP documentation makes no mention of this.
>
> Given this, why is the default value of arg_separator.output
> '&' and not '&'?
URLs don't have & in them.
The & is specific escaping for _only_ XML.
Jared