kevin_erickson wrote:
> Hello,
> I am looking for advice on if the best way to code for special characters is 
> to use the actual character or the attribute value or the alt code?
> i.e. for the ampersand should one use & or &? Does it matter? I know that 
> Dreamweaver automates some of this but what is the best practice?
>   

You're always supposed to encode & as & (even in hrefs) and that's
what standards compliance requires.

(I use XHTML and I also want to be parseable as XML so aside from XMLs
inbuilt entities of < > & " and ' I tend to use
NCRs...).

-- 
.Matthew Holloway
http://holloway.co.nz/



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