Posted by Toby A Inkster on 12/21/07 12:30

Harlan Messinger wrote:

> URLs are not HTML. They have their own syntax.

But of course, URLs represented in HTML have to both conform to the URL
syntax rules, *plus* HTML syntax rules. (The trick is to apply the URL
rules first, such as percent-encoding, and *then* apply HTML rules, like
representing ampersands as "&".)

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