On Aug 1, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Christopher R. Maden wrote: > On 08/01/2011 04:35 PM, Zaid Amireh wrote: >> The thing is that libxml is escaping the & between the two parameters >> into & and this is obviously not needed for html href's, I >> checked the mailing list and someone in 1999 proposed to implement >> xmlSetRawProp but it seems it never made it, any ideas on how to >> overcome this? > > Obvious to whom? It is, in fact, required (by the HTML specifications) > to turn the & into &, even if it is rarely done in practice. >
Citation please. RFC1630 (and RFC1738 and RFC1808 for that matter) states that '&' is safe to use and all of those RFC actually don't even mention & from RFC1630 httpaddress h t t p : / / hostport [ / path ] [ ?search ] search xalphas [ + search ] xalphas xalpha [ xalphas ] xalpha alpha | digit | safe | extra | escape safe $ | - | _ | @ | . | & | + | - Zaid _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
