[jira] Created: (MYFACES-1774) HtmlLinkRenderer should output & instead of & as the url param separator within href attribute according to HTML Spec

[Manfred Geiler (JIRA)]

HtmlLinkRenderer should output & instead of & as the url param separator 
within href attribute according to HTML Spec
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                 Key: MYFACES-1774
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MYFACES-1774
             Project: MyFaces Core
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: General, JSR-127, JSR-252
    Affects Versions:  1.2.0, 1.1.5
            Reporter: Manfred Geiler
            Assignee: Manfred Geiler
            Priority: Minor


Currently a <h:outputLink> with nested <f:param> components is rendered as
  <a href="somepage?foo=1&bar=2">...</a>

According to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ the character entity "&amp;" should 
be used instead of "&":
"Authors should use "&amp;" (ASCII decimal 38) instead of "&" to avoid 
confusion with the beginning of a character reference (entity reference open 
delimiter). Authors should also use "&amp;" in attribute values since character 
references are allowed within CDATA attribute values."

Though current browsers seem to have no problem with "&" characters within href 
attributes, this issue gets serious when using XHTML. Not using the character 
entity "&amp;" instead of "&" leads to invalid (not well-formed) XML data!
Therefore I think we should fix this.

BTW, the RI renders the wrong "&" as well.


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