Posted by Jared Williams on 04/20/05 02:26

>
> For documents to conform to the XHTML recommendation,
> ampersand characters much be encoded as &. The
> documentation for PHP recognises this. The same applies to
> HTML (with some exceptions that the session code will never
> encounter), although the PHP documentation makes no mention of this.
>
> Given this, why is the default value of arg_separator.output
> '&' and not '&'?

URLs don't have & in them.

The & is specific escaping for _only_ XML.

Jared

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