Query Strings and XHTML Validation  01-29-2004, 03:19 AM If the
ampersand character will invalidate my XHTML documents, how am I
supposed to pass query strings with multiple variables along
with certain links?  01-29-2004, 03:37 AM  // freak  01-29-2004,
03:58 AM ah.. dur..    01-29-2004, 04:00 AM that's fairly
annoying though. is there a really good reason i'm ignorant of
for this?  i mean, i was already using the "&" before, and now
for "valid" markup i'm going to have to get used to a simple,
but tediously annoying extra four characters everytime i wanna
pass some freakin' variables?   01-29-2004, 11:50 AM Yes, it's
because & has been reserved for entity references the whole
time, but XML is stricter in how you are allowed to use it. In
other words, XML will not allow you to use & for anything other
than an entity reference, while SGML was laxer and only parsed
them as entity references when they were obviously a part of an
entity reference.  XML has a few quirks like that. It's not
intended to be a more s