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

Fri Apr 30 16:03:31 IST 2004

I didn't look at the EtText code. I'm not using EtText. That made me think, I'm not putting 
format="text/html" in my <content> tags, and that maybe it was defaulting to "text/et". So I have a 
small example, and I put the format="text/html" into it and it still converts &amp; to &. For 
reference here is what I am doing:

<webmake>
<content name=dud format="text/html">
<html><body>
<a href="http://nowhere.com/nofile.pl?&amp;htqdb">test</a>
</body></html>
</content>
<out name="dud" file="dud2.html">
   ${dud}
</out>

I'm running webmake through the perl debugger. I'll let you know if I find something.

Robert Echlin wrote:
> 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 &amp; 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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