DOCTYPE declaration for invalid page

[James Ghaphery]

Hi all,

I'm trying to get my head around the HTML standards and have been running
my pages through the w3c validator http://validator.w3.org It's been very
helpful for my buggy code.

What is the advice from any standards gurus out there for pages that cannot
be validated. Should they include a DOCTYPE declaration or not?

In particular a number of my pages cannot be validated due to the HTML
standard for *not* using an ampersand in a URI, and instead using "&".
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2

A curious library problem with this part of the standard is in the 856
field of a catalog record. If one still has telnet access to the catalog it
seems that the URI must not follow the HTML standard or else an incorrect
address will be displayed in the telnet version.

--Jimmy Ghaphery

 

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Jimmy Ghaphery
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