RE: [PHP] XHTML Validation problem

Begin forwarded message: >> I have a page that displays data entered by the user. There is one >> user that entered the character "&" inside the text he typed. For >> this case the xhtml validation fails and gives me the following >> error: >> "character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred >> as data." >> >> I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid this error. The page >> itself is valid and fails just in the case the user enters the & >> character. Try replacing the '&' character with ' '. That is what I did to get rid of that warning in my xhtml documents. Steve