[thelist] Validation question

[Richard McFarland]

Hi, all.

I'm just getting around to validating the code I wrote for a restaurant. I
know I should have done that already, but I'm still learning ;-P. Anyway,
I've been running the site's pages through the W3C validator and am having a
problem with some of the links I've embedded. Here's a specific example.

The link, written thus (sorry about the wrap):
<a
href="http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=6804+E+Green+Lake+Wy+N&
csz=Seattle+WA"></a>

...causes the validator to issue this:

>Line 64, column 151: cannot generate system identifier for general entity
>"addr"

>
...//maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=6804+E+Green+Lake+Wy+N&csz=Seat
tle+
                                          ^
plus seven other errors related to characters and entities in the link's
URI.

Here's the actual page:

http://www.nellsrestaurant.com/directions.html

...and the validator is at:

http://validator.w3.org/

I'm wondering if anybody's had any success in fixing this so the page will
validate. Other links that use CGI scripts throw the same error message,
BTW.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Richard
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Richard McFarland (rlmcfarland at attbi.com)

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