[Phplib-trackers] [ phplib-Bugs-501788 ] & char in URIs is invalid XHML

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Bugs item #501788, was opened at 2002-01-10 06:11
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gaetano Giunta (ggiunta)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: & char in URIs is invalid XHML

Initial Comment:
Intro:

when writing XHTML docs the href attribute cannot ever 
contain the & char. So all URIs containing a query part with more than 
1 params need to be rewritten using the & escape sequence (I 
tried it and it works!)

Problem:

the url(), self_url() 
etc... functions in phplib all use/search for only the & char as a 
query separator

Suggestion:

make new xurl(), 
xself_url(), ... functions, or modify existing 
ones...

Thanks, Gaetano

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>Comment By: Richard Archer (richardarcher)
Date: 2002-01-14 12:25

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Are you sure the "&" character is not allowed? That would
seem to me to be illogical. 

Example: in order to pass a parameter "tv=black&white" you
need to escape the '&'.

The XHTML spec at: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd
defines a URI as:

<!ENTITY % URI "CDATA">
<!-- a Uniform Resource Identifier, see [RFC2396] -->


RFC 2396 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2396.html defines '&'
as a reserved character. These may appear unescaped in URIs
and indeed *must* not be escaped or the meaning of the URI
may change.

Perhaps the implementation of XHTML you're using is buggy?

Otherwise, I'd appreciate a link to an XHTML spec that
defines URI's differently!


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