[thesite] 14 days and counting..

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 1 15:09:32 CST 2000


> From: McCreath_David <McCreath_David at xmail.asd.k12.ak.us>
[...]
> 
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Line 51, column 126: 
>   ... ref="http://test.evolt.org/evolt.borg?cfid=337544&cftoken=99383017"><i
> ...
>                                                         ^
> Error: general entity "cftoken" not defined and no default entity
> 
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> And here's the link to the actual validation:
> 
> <wrap>
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.evolt.org%2Ftest%2Fartic
> le%2Fvalidate_article.html
> </wrap>
> 
> Is there something we can do to make those validate? Or should we not worry
> about it?

ampersands in links should be &amp;, not &... so it's looking for 
&cftoken (or &cftoken;) as an ISO entity, just the same way 
&copy; is the copyright symbol...

so, the CF guys would have to do a replace for all instances of '&' 
in a hyperlink, replacing it '&amp;'

dig?




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