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    <bug>
          <bug_id>19524</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2012-10-13 15:15:04 +0000</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Validator.w3.org flagging required characters within URL&apos;s</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2012-10-23 16:05:17 +0000</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>Validator</product>
          <component>check</component>
          <version>HEAD</version>
          <rep_platform>PC</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Windows NT</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>normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="paulandrewanderson">paulandrewanderson</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking">dave.null</assigned_to>
          
          
          <qa_contact name="qa-dev tracking">www-validator-cvs</qa_contact>

      

      

      

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    <commentid>76213</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="paulandrewanderson">paulandrewanderson</who>
    <bug_when>2012-10-13 15:15:04 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>There are many characters within URLs (&amp; = etc.) that cannot altered, encoded or eliminated. It would be a staggering effort to encode every ampersand within every URL on the web.  

 Line 128, Column 110: general entity &quot;m&quot; not defined and no default entity
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&quot; title=&quot;Amazon eBooks&quot;&gt;
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This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&amp;) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.

 Line 128, Column 111: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&quot; title=&quot;Amazon eBooks&quot;&gt;
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If you meant to include an entity that starts with &quot;&amp;&quot;, then you should terminate it with &quot;;&quot;. Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an &quot;&amp;&quot; character just before this text.

 Line 128, Column 111: reference to external entity in attribute value
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&quot; title=&quot;Amazon eBooks&quot;&gt;
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This is generally the sign of an ampersand that was not properly escaped for inclusion in an attribute, in a href for example. You will need to escape all instances of &apos;&amp;&apos; into &apos;&amp;amp;&apos;.

 Line 128, Column 111: reference to entity &quot;m&quot; for which no system identifier could be generated
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&quot; title=&quot;Amazon eBooks&quot;&gt;
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This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&amp;) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.

 Line 128, Column 109: entity was defined here
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&quot; title=&quot;Amazon eBooks&quot;&gt;</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>76965</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Ville Skyttä">ville.skytta</who>
    <bug_when>2012-10-23 16:05:17 +0000</bug_when>
    <thetext>Ampersands can and need to be encoded as &amp;amp; in URLs embedded in valid HTML documents, no matter how much work that might be.</thetext>
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    </bug>

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