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    <bug>
          <bug_id>14361</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2011-10-03 07:25:36 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>&amp; in a href is flaged as invalid</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2015-08-23 07:07:40 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>HTML Checker</product>
          <component>General</component>
          <version>unspecified</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>All</op_sys>
          <bug_status>RESOLVED</bug_status>
          <resolution>INVALID</resolution>
          
          
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>major</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Martin Barker">martin.barker</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Michael[tm] Smith">mike</assigned_to>
          <cc>elimerl</cc>
          
          <qa_contact name="qa-dev tracking">www-validator-cvs</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>57685</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Martin Barker">martin.barker</who>
    <bug_when>2011-10-03 07:25:36 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>The Validator flags an &amp; in a href as invalid this would be the only place it would be valid as if you tryed to send &amp;amp; though the address bar any thing that followed it would not be sent correctly as ; is a break in a GET parameter sent to a page

Example Code
&lt;a class=&quot;thickbox&quot; href=&quot;../../../index.php/login/#TB_inline?height=200&amp;width=200&amp;inlineId=form&quot;&gt;Log In&lt;/a&gt;

Given Result
 Line 44, Column 731: &amp; did not start a character reference. (&amp; probably should have been escaped as &amp;amp;.) 
</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>57990</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Etienne Miret">elimerl</who>
    <bug_when>2011-10-09 21:18:42 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>&amp; in href IS invalid. Use &amp;amp; instead.</thetext>
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    </bug>

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