On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:48:06 -0600, Shane Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An external link to another site doesn't validate (line 40). I get > several errors.
Did you read the information provided by the validator? The first error picked up by the validator is on Line 40, column 69. "cannot generate system identifier for general entity 'CompanyID'" The validator then highlights the problem. It's the "&C" in the URL "...?id=90057&CompanyID=0..." The validator then describes the error. I read it. The bit that jumps out at me is: "If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as "&" (even inside URLs!)." The validator has diagnosed what the problem is: the unencoded ampersands in the url. It also provides a link that explains why this is an error: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html#amp Back to the validation results. The following errors are either the same problem, or described as "...usually a cascading error..." meaning if the above error was fixed, these others would probably no longer be errors. So to answer your question, "Is there anything I can do to make the page validate?" I would follow the validator's advice and replace all "&" in the url with "&" and then revalidate the page. And if I had any doubts about this affecting the link, I'd click it and see what happens. -ben ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
