Fwd: [PHP] XHTML Validation problem

[email protected] (Simon Welsh)
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> From: Simon Welsh <[email protected]>
> Date: 3 May 2008 4:18:04 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] XHTML Validation problem
>
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> On 3/05/2008, at 4:13, It Maq wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a page that displays data entered by the user. There is one  
>> user that entered the character "&" inside the text he typed. For  
>> this case the xhtml validation fails and gives me the following  
>> error:
>> "character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred  
>> as data."
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a way to avoid this error. The page  
>> itself is valid and fails just in the case the user enters the &  
>> character.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>>
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> Pass the input through htmlspecialchars().
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