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[css-d] Validating banner ads

Sent by Dev on 31 December 2002 13:01


Hi all,

I've just put a site live, using css positioning, that *almost*
validates:
www.crunchymedia.com">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.crunchymedia.com

What's tripping it up is the URL string in the banner ad (ok, and it's
got a missing alt tag). The URL looks like this:
http://www.ozdvdwhs.com.au/dvd/dvdproduct.php3?isr=1&sid=155&fmt=1&pkey=
4872

And it's throwing errors in the validator like this:
Line 16, column 129: cannot generate system identifier for general
entity "sid" 
Line 16, column 132: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter 
Line 16, column 132: reference to external entity in attribute value 
Etc etc.

Is there any way I can get around this? Anyway to tell the parser that
characters in query strings are NOT entities? I'd love to be able to say
the site validates, but we need the paying sponsors too!

Thanks,
Kay.

http://kay.smoljak.com
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