RE: XHTML Validation problem

[email protected] ("Steven R. Ringwald") Fri, 2 May 2008 23:09:16 -0700

Newsgroups	php.general
Organization	AIP Systems LLC
Message-ID	<!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAANfN8SHKPRBPlSDJRDRr/[email protected]>

>>> 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.

Sorry y’all. I meant to say &amp; rather than &nbsp;. Ought to teach me to check email before eating dinner. ☺

Steve