RE: [PHP] XHTML Validation problem

[email protected] ("Steven R. Ringwald") Fri, 2 May 2008 21:58:19 -0700

Newsgroups	php.general
Organization	AIP Systems LLC
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Begin forwarded message:

>> 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.





Try replacing the '&' character with '&nbsp;'. That is what I did to get rid
of that warning in my xhtml documents.


Steve