"&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data?

HTML & CSS
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Thanks to advice that I read here, I changed every “&” character in my pages’ URLs to “&” and my pages now validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Even though they validate, for every page that has URLs that contain the “&” character, the W3C validator makes the following comment once for each URL:

Line 147, column 120: character “&” is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data

Is this due to a validator limitation issue, or is there some way that I can “fix” those URLs (even more) to avoid getting those comments from the validator?

2

Can we see a link or some sample code that’s giving you these errors?

3

Just click on my home page link in my sig and then click on the W3C XHTML 1.0 icon in the left column.

4

This doesn’t look right does it; line: 147:

&d&0&5

make them all &not &.

5

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xhtmlcoder,

I thought I HAD changed all of those & characters to & !!!

When I first got those validator comments yesterday, I searched my code over and over for & characters.

Today, I read your reply over and over, studying the code that you quoted, but I still didn’t see them. :xeye:

Then, as I was in the middle of replying to you that I don’t understand what you’re saying,

I suddenly saw the & characters that I hadn’t changed to & !!! :goof:

Thanks!

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