W3C Validation: Problem with "_GET" URLS?

[supergrover1981]

Hi Gang,I'm currently trying to clean up my webpage code and for the most part it's going well - there's only one small problem:Many parts of my site link to external URLS with long "$_GET"-inspired addresses. (For example, "http://www.example.com/abc.php?id=xyz&itemid=frog"The problem is that W3C validation throws up a red flag whenever it sees a "field=xyz" part of a url, giving the messages:

general entity "field" not defined and no default entity.

every time it stumbles across an ampersand in the URL and:

reference to entity "field" for which no system identifier could be generated.

every time it stumbles across an equals sign.I'm *sure* there must be some way around this - surely W3C can acknowledge _GET URLS somehow? If anyone can offer any suggestions I'd be very appreciative.Many thanks, - SuperGrover :-)

[jlhaslip]

Replace the "&"s with the html entity for an Ampersand:

&

[supergrover1981]

Replace the "&"s with the html entity for an Ampersand:

&

*grin*Many thanks jlhaslip - worked a treat. The URLs were PHP-driven which was kinda confusing me, but a

str_replace('&', '&', $template_row['fromurl'])

did the trick. :-)

[jlhaslip]

Glad to help.This is a perfect example of the nature of compounding errors inside the validator. Solve the ampersand problem and the equal-sign error goes away.