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Re: Resources for AtomPub parser validation

* Thomas Broyer <t.broyer@xxxxxxxxx> [2008-07-03 18:20]:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> > Which is of course why the W3C established a semicolon as the
> > recommended query string pair separator a decade ago, so that
> > you could write
> >
> >    compare?original=1;copy=2
> >
> > which requires no monkeying with any XML/SGML/HTML escape
> > mechanism at all.
> 
> ...except if you use an ampersand in a value...
> 
>     foo?bar=baz&copy;baz=quux

    foo?bar=baz%C2%A9;baz=quux

Pretty much no reason to ever have a literal ampersand in a URI.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>