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Bug 19524 - Validator.w3.org flagging required characters within URL's
Summary: Validator.w3.org flagging required characters within URL's
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: HEAD
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2012-10-13 15:15 UTC by paulandrewanderson
Modified: 2012-10-23 16:05 UTC (History)
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Description paulandrewanderson 2012-10-13 15:15:04 UTC
There are many characters within URLs (& = 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 "m" not defined and no default entity
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2" title="Amazon eBooks">
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This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) 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&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2" title="Amazon eBooks">
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If you meant to include an entity that starts with "&", then you should terminate it with ";". Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an "&" character just before this text.

 Line 128, Column 111: reference to external entity in attribute value
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2" title="Amazon eBooks">
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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 '&' into '&'.

 Line 128, Column 111: reference to entity "m" for which no system identifier could be generated
…/B0082PM7QA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2" title="Amazon eBooks">
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This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) 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&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2" title="Amazon eBooks">
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2012-10-23 16:05:17 UTC
Ampersands can and need to be encoded as & in URLs embedded in valid HTML documents, no matter how much work that might be.