[WM] [Fwd: Improper conversion from & to &]

[Robert Echlin]

Thanks for that information, jlm.
I will watch for that.

Did you check in the EtText code?

Robert

jlm17 wrote:
> It appears that webmake is converting my & entities into &. This is 
> actually incorrect behavior:
> 
>> Ampersands (&'s) in URLs
>>
>> Another common error occurs when including a URL which contains an 
>> ampersand ("&"):
>>
>> <!-- This is invalid! --> <a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&section=2">...</a>
>>
>> This example generates an error for "unknown entity section" because 
>> the "&" is assumed to begin 
> 
>  >an entity. In many cases, browsers will recover safely from the error, 
> but the example used here
>  >will cause the link to fail in Netscape 3.x (but not other versions of 
> Netscape) since it will
>  >assume that the author intended to write &sect;ion, which is 
> equivalent to §ion.
> 
>>
>> To avoid problems with both validators and browsers, always use &amp; 
>> in place of &:
>>
>> <a href="foo.cgi?chapter=1&amp;section=2">...</a>
> 
> 
> The above is from http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html
> 
> So far I have been unlucky in finding out where in the webmake code this 
> is actually happening.
> Everywhere that I see an &amp; in the code it is actually converting TO 
> it instead of from it.
> 
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