[ZPT] escaped strings in attributes
Evan Simpson
evan@zope.com
Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:02:30 -0400
Markus Kemmerling wrote:
> I would like to replace a href-attribute with a query string containing
> more than one parameter. I found that the & betwen two parameters is
> escaped, i.e. becomes &. It seems that this doesn't matter (at
> least not in the browsers I tested), but I don't think that it is
> correct HTTP-syntax.
Actually, it is. Search for "Authors should also escape ampersand within
attribute values" in http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-html40-971107/charset.html
Cheers,
Evan @ Zope