Re: [Fwd: Support for & as a parameter separator in ]

Sorry my mistake, I overlooked the ampersand escaping in HTML4.0 href attribute. & is required in a URL query string in order for the document to be validated as valid HTML4.0 with either loose or strict dtd. Then probably the original recommendation made on this thread should be implemented in

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Re: [Fwd: Support for & as a parameter separator in ]

Rashmi Rubdi wrote: > By this I mean, irregardless of whether it's HTML4.0 > which requires the un-escaped version of the ampersand uh, well -- Authors should use "&" (ASCII decimal 38) instead of "&" to avoid confusion

Re: [Fwd: Support for & as a parameter separator in ]

I think by design, separating the task of escaping entities makes the c:url action change proof. By this I mean, irregardless of whether it's HTML4.0 which requires the un-escaped version of the ampersand or if it's XHTML1.0 which requires an escaped version or if suppose something new (XML2.0

Re: [Fwd: Support for & as a parameter separator in ]

Rashmi Rubdi wrote: There is a way to get the escaped ampersand with c:url and c:out when you set the escapeXml attribute of c:out to true, it converts the & to & Yes, you're right. I haven't thought about this solution. But I prefer shorter version: ${someURL} insetad of Anyway, thanks.

Re: [Fwd: Support for & as a parameter separator in ]

There is a way to get the escaped ampersand with c:url and c:out when you set the escapeXml attribute of c:out to true, it converts the & to & You will have to "View Source" in your browser to see the & http://www.somesite.com/index.jsp"; > < / c:url>

[Fwd: Support for & as a parameter separator in ]

Hi, Current version of JSTL's standard.jar does not use & as a parameter separator in generated URLs (the c:url and c:param tags). There are more and more XHTML enabled sites and such behavior makes generated pages not valid XML (more information at http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/pro