special entities: < > & and "
Marc Andreessen (marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Wed, 6 Oct 93 14:14:34 -0500
Kevin Altis writes:
> I seem to remember that you used to have to quote the special characters <
> > & and " within an HTML document so that & becomes &, " becomes ",
> < and > become < and > This is documented in the draft HTML
> specification (actually the < and > aren't in there), but I've tried it
> out with XMosaic and I don't have to quote the characters at all within
> normal text. If the quoting rule only applies within an URL or as part of a
> tag then it should be documented as such with examples. What's the real
> story Tim?
Don't use Mosaic to *validate* your HTML -- use a DTD and an SGML
parser. Mosaic handles many error cases cleanly, but they're still
error cases.
Marc