[WEB4LIB] Re: Hard hyphen and HTML validation

[Dan Lester]

Tuesday, October 29, 2002, 5:19:19 PM, you wrote:

SP> For example, the link to our online catalog is: 
SP> http://www.waldo.msus.edu/cgi-bin/pals-cgi?palsAction=newSearch&setWeb=MCLCAT
SP> On of our silverplatter databases is: 
SP> http://webspirs.silverplatter.com:8000/waldo?sp.form.first.p=srchmain.htm&sp.dbid.p=S(WN)
SP> and America: History and Life is:
SP> http://serials.abc-clio.com/cgi-bin/nph-AppStart.py2.1?_appname=v3&initialdb=AH

SP> We cannot substitute & for THOSE ampersands. 

SP> So...as far as I can tell, any pages with those URLs are doomed to 
SP> be 'invalid' as far as most validation services are concerned.

I'm sure that this will be heresy to some purists, but why not just
ignore those validation errors?  It isn't a perfect world, and those
are things beyond your control, so why worry?

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