Re: [Fwd: Support for & as a parameter separator in <c:url>]
Hassan Schroeder <[email protected]>
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Rashmi Rubdi wrote: > By this I mean, irregardless of whether it's HTML4.0 > which requires the un-escaped version of the ampersand uh, well -- <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#didx-character_entity_references> Authors should use "&" (ASCII decimal 38) instead of "&" to avoid confusion with the beginning of a character reference (entity reference open delimiter). Authors should also use "&" in attribute values since character references are allowed within CDATA attribute values. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just because most browsers render basically *anything* thrown their way regardless of validity doesn't make using '&' by itself right, even with an HTML4 doctype. > Also c:redirect requires an unescaped version of the > ampersand. You can use <c:param> and not assemble the query string yourself, which is probably better practice anyway. FWIW! -- Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- [email protected] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com opinion: webtuitive.blogspot.com dream. code.