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Re: Ampersand for URLs

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Subject: Re: [xsl] Ampersand for URLs
From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:37:50 +0100
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> No matte what various browsers may or may not accept, using sgml/xml
> entities like "&amp;" in a url does not conform with the rfc.

The &amp; is _not_ in the URI. The URI just has & but to place any string
involving & in an XML or HTML file you need to quote the &.
this is why in the location bar of the browser you don't use &amp;
but in the href attribute you do.

David

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- Re: Ampersand for URLs
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