[WEB4LIB] Re: Hard hyphen and HTML validation

[Kevin Bishop]

Ampersands and non-breaking/hard hyphens -- and other characters,
symbols and elements of the HTML document character set -- should be
rendered using HTML character entities or their numeric equivalents
(e.g., & or & and — [em dash] respectively).

You'll find a collection here for HTML 4.01:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html

Search www.w3.org for more ... 

Hope this helps.
-kb

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robert Sullivan
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 6:33 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Hard hyphen and HTML validation
> 
> 
> > OTOH, I probably shouldn't worry too much about those validation 
> > errors.  I have come to the realization that some of our pages will 
> > *always* produce coding errors because of ampersands or 
> other unusual 
> > characters that are a part of some of our database URL's.
> 
> Actually, if you convert & to & they validate properly.  
> (Thanks to Web4Lib for informing me of this.)
> 
> Bob Sullivan
> Schenectady County Public Library (NY)  <http://www.scpl.org>
> 
> 
>