Thanks to nedlud and Chris too. Just to be clear, and to save others who might be offering editing suggestions ..
I did just want to know if it's still necessary to do the encoding, I don't require help with the conversion, I have that under control. And it's not necessary anyway. The task is to insert 100s of instances of the (almost) same URL which contains ampersands; just one part of the URL needs to be different for each item it "belongs" to, so it's not a simple find/replace job. cheers, dan. On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Dan Webb <libweb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Jelina and David for prompt replies. > > I'll continue to do encode them. > > cheers, > > dan. > > > > > Jelina wrote: >>As far as I'm aware, this is still necessary..... (etc) >> > > > > David wrote: >>Yes.... (etc) >> > > > > >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:39 PM, I wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Years ago, I use to painstakingly and religiously convert & to & >>> when ever I encountered it (HTML 4.01 Strict doctype). >>> >>> It's still pegged as invalid by the W3C validator, but is it really >>> still necessary these days? What could possibly go wrong in modern >>> browsers? >>> >>> I'm talking specifically here about ampersands in URLs that are >>> provided to me by database vendors, which I have no control over; I'm >>> about to start inserting literally 100s of them into static html >>> pages. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> danny boy. >>> >>> >>> ******************************************************************* >>> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >>> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >>> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >>> ******************************************************************* >>> >>> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
