w3c validator doesn't like dynamic url's?

Dj_Jestar · 12 Jul 2006 at 08:13

Just checked over my page output on the validator, to find numerous errors such as:

Warning Line 58 column 50: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "file".
...><td><a href="index.php?download=yes&file=addproducts.php">addproducts.php</a

now.. is that an actual 'fail' or the validator's parser is unable to depict links properly?

(and before anyone get's nitpicky - I will be using the full address in links, this is still just a test page

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Dj_Jestar · 12 Jul 2006 at 08:40

Even in href's we are to use HTML entities? Didn't know that..

Dj_Jestar · 12 Jul 2006 at 11:00

In my defence.. I was fully aware of the need to use HTML entity 'codes' for output.. just not in href's

Dj_Jestar · 12 Jul 2006 at 13:17

KingAdora said:
Why would you want to use full address links? You should use relative.

There are a very small number of browsers that do not support relative URL's, and given all browsers support full URL's, the choice is a no brainer

The links will be generated dynamically, so there won't be any problems with cross-domain issues etc.