Re: Escaping Ampersands

Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:01:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Aaron Patterson wrote:
>Hi.  I've been escaping some html links such as:
>
><img src="http://jello/?foo=bar&name=aaron">
>
>Which get translated to:
>
><img src="http://jello/?foo=bar&amp;name=aaron">
>
>I know that this is the correct functionality, but I was wondering if
>anyone could point me to a spec that says that the browser should
>translate the "&amp;" back into an "&" before making the request?  I'm
>not sure what spec to read through for this, and I would really appreciate a
>link.  Thank you!

Is http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2 good enough?
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