Message-ID: <g1uquv$au2$1@registered.motzarella.org> from :Jerry:
contained the following:

>But my question was about the php variables passed within a URL, what 
>if that html code contains, possibly server side generated, multiple 
>php variables in it (such as www.example.com?cow=2&sheep=3&pigs=2), 
>whilst I can see that there is a problem with browsers misinterpreting 
>ampersands and what follows surely this is a php coding issue and not 
>a browser or html issue - IOW the person writing the php should be 
>aware of the problem and *not* use a text string as a variable that 
>could be misinterpreted whilst the validators should be intelligent 
>enough to ignore php variables within a URL? 


I touched on this in the last part of my post.  The PHP developer cannot
know what might become an entity in the future, IOW &pigs is fine now
but who is to say that it will not be rendered as a small graphic pig in
the future?

The rule is simple - ampersands in URLs on webpages should be written as
&  Nothing to do with php asp or any other language, just simple
html.
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