Please validate this page

#1

Folks:

Please use FF's validation to hit this page -

http://www.oakfurnituremaker.co.uk/test/index.asp

When I do that I get a host of warnings about unencoded "&" characters.
Yet, there are none on this page! Even is there were, what should I do
about them?

In addition, there are two alt tag warnings at the bottom. I can't find the
line #'s that they refer to! 8\

'sup with this?

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#2

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Quote:

Folks:

Please use FF's validation to hit this page -

http://www.oakfurnituremaker.co.uk/test/index.asp

When I do that I get a host of warnings about unencoded "&" characters.
Yet, there are none on this page! Even is there were, what should I do
about them?

You do have them, take a look at your URL for your links to the product pages:

e.g.:
<a href="c_thumb2.asp?menu=English&range=Contemporary &piece=Chairs">Chairs</a><

notice the & in the query string, change those to & and you'll start to validate. However, it doesn't look like the code you're using server side accomodates that type of usage, it probably splits the query string based upon just the & character itself, so that will need to get addressed *if* you page really needs to validate.

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#3

Oops - here I was thinking ASP code and recordsets. You are absolutely
right.

Quote:

it probably splits the query string based upon just the & character
itself, so that will need to get addressed *if* you page really needs to
validate.

That's correct. How would it be addressed?

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"danilocelic" <danilo (AT) shimmerphase (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Folks:

Please use FF's validation to hit this page -

http://www.oakfurnituremaker.co.uk/test/index.asp

When I do that I get a host of warnings about unencoded "&" characters.
Yet, there are none on this page! Even is there were, what should I do
about them?

You do have them, take a look at your URL for your links to the product
pages:

e.g.:
a
href="c_thumb2.asp?menu=English&range=Contemporary &piece=Chairs">Chairs</a

notice the & in the query string, change those to & and you'll start
to validate. However, it doesn't look like the code you're using server
side accomodates that type of usage, it probably splits the query string
based upon just the & character itself, so that will need to get addressed
*if* you page really needs to validate.

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#4

ASP will process the & as a straight & character when parsing the
variables from the UrlString. I've had to do the same thing quite often to
get it to validate, but the bottom line is, when it's read by the server,
the server understands that & = &.

"danilocelic" <danilo (AT) shimmerphase (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Folks:

Please use FF's validation to hit this page -

http://www.oakfurnituremaker.co.uk/test/index.asp

When I do that I get a host of warnings about unencoded "&" characters.
Yet, there are none on this page! Even is there were, what should I do
about them?

You do have them, take a look at your URL for your links to the product
pages:

e.g.:
a
href="c_thumb2.asp?menu=English&range=Contemporary &piece=Chairs">Chairs</a

notice the & in the query string, change those to & and you'll start
to validate. However, it doesn't look like the code you're using server side

accomodates that type of usage, it probably splits the query string based
upon just the & character itself, so that will need to get addressed *if*
you page really needs to validate.

Quote:

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#5

Murray *TMM* wrote:

Quote:

That's correct. How would it be addressed?

Murray,
You're getting old, you've asked the exact same question about 2 months ago

Thierry

#6

Whee! Thanks, David. It's valid now... 8)

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"David" <david (AT) cfwebmasters (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

ASP will process the & as a straight & character when parsing the
variables from the UrlString. I've had to do the same thing quite often
to
get it to validate, but the bottom line is, when it's read by the server,
the server understands that & = &.

"danilocelic" <danilo (AT) shimmerphase (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cmqrav$lb0$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Murray *TMM* wrote:

Folks:

Please use FF's validation to hit this page -

http://www.oakfurnituremaker.co.uk/test/index.asp

When I do that I get a host of warnings about unencoded "&" characters.
Yet, there are none on this page! Even is there were, what should I do
about them?

You do have them, take a look at your URL for your links to the product
pages:

e.g.:
a
href="c_thumb2.asp?menu=English&range=Contemporary &piece=Chairs">Chairs</a

notice the & in the query string, change those to & and you'll start
to validate. However, it doesn't look like the code you're using server
side
accomodates that type of usage, it probably splits the query string based
upon just the & character itself, so that will need to get addressed *if*
you page really needs to validate.

--
Enjoy,
Danilo Celic

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#7

I am getting old. And - I did? Do you have a link?

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"Thierry Koblentz" <thierry (AT) 212utah (DOT) invalid> wrote

Quote:

Murray *TMM* wrote:
That's correct. How would it be addressed?

Murray,
You're getting old, you've asked the exact same question about 2 months
ago

Thierry

#8

I would just contact them directly, David, and open a trouble ticket -

http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/complimentary/main.cgi

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"David" <david (AT) cfwebmasters (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

You're much welcome.

Think you could give me a hand on this one?

The instruction at "0x77f5b2ab" referenced memory at "0x00000028". The
memory could not be read. Click OK to terminate the application.

...and dreamweaver crashes...

I posted it earlier. You don't happen to have an inside connection at
Macromedia do you *whishfully hoping*

David Young
CFWebmasters.com
david (AT) cfwebmasters (DOT) com

"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote in message
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Whee! Thanks, David. It's valid now... 8)

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"David" <david (AT) cfwebmasters (DOT) com> wrote in message
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ASP will process the & as a straight & character when parsing the
variables from the UrlString. I've had to do the same thing quite
often
to
get it to validate, but the bottom line is, when it's read by the
server,
the server understands that & = &.

"danilocelic" <danilo (AT) shimmerphase (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cmqrav$lb0$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Murray *TMM* wrote:

Folks:

Please use FF's validation to hit this page -

http://www.oakfurnituremaker.co.uk/test/index.asp

When I do that I get a host of warnings about unencoded "&"
characters.
Yet, there are none on this page! Even is there were, what should I
do
about them?

You do have them, take a look at your URL for your links to the
product
pages:

e.g.:
a

href="c_thumb2.asp?menu=English&range=Contemporary &piece=Chairs">Chairs</a

notice the & in the query string, change those to & and you'll
start
to validate. However, it doesn't look like the code you're using server
side
accomodates that type of usage, it probably splits the query string
based
upon just the & character itself, so that will need to get addressed
*if*
you page really needs to validate.

--
Enjoy,
Danilo Celic

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#9

.oO(danilocelic)

Quote:

notice the & in the query string, change those to & and you'll start
to validate. However, it doesn't look like the code you're using server
side accomodates that type of usage, it probably splits the query string
based upon just the & character itself,

Nope, the server gets a real &, even if it's written as & in the
source code. Character references are handled by the browser.

Quote:

so that will need to get
addressed *if* you page really needs to validate.

And if you want to avoid certain problems. Take this link for example:

http://www.example.com/?foo=bar&copy=allowed

What would you expect the browsers to do?

© is a named entity. The trailing semicolon is not always necessary
(SGML allows to omit it in some cases), so the above link will lead to
http://www.example.com/?foo=bar©=allowed in some browsers (IE and FF for
example).

Micha

#10

You're much welcome.

Think you could give me a hand on this one?

The instruction at "0x77f5b2ab" referenced memory at "0x00000028". The
memory could not be read. Click OK to terminate the application.

....and dreamweaver crashes...

I posted it earlier. You don't happen to have an inside connection at
Macromedia do you *whishfully hoping*

David Young
CFWebmasters.com
david (AT) cfwebmasters (DOT) com

"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

Whee! Thanks, David. It's valid now... 8)

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"David" <david (AT) cfwebmasters (DOT) com> wrote in message
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ASP will process the & as a straight & character when parsing the
variables from the UrlString. I've had to do the same thing quite often
to
get it to validate, but the bottom line is, when it's read by the
server,
the server understands that & = &.

"danilocelic" <danilo (AT) shimmerphase (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:cmqrav$lb0$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Murray *TMM* wrote:

Folks:

Please use FF's validation to hit this page -

http://www.oakfurnituremaker.co.uk/test/index.asp

When I do that I get a host of warnings about unencoded "&"
characters.
Yet, there are none on this page! Even is there were, what should I
do
about them?

You do have them, take a look at your URL for your links to the product
pages:

e.g.:
a

href="c_thumb2.asp?menu=English&range=Contemporary &piece=Chairs">Chairs</a

notice the & in the query string, change those to & and you'll
start
to validate. However, it doesn't look like the code you're using server
side
accomodates that type of usage, it probably splits the query string
based
upon just the & character itself, so that will need to get addressed
*if*
you page really needs to validate.

--
Enjoy,
Danilo Celic

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