workaround for && in xdocs/*

[Helena Edelson <he...@greenjaguar.com>]

this workaround works for links with "&" in the URL when the link is in 
xdocs/
here is an example of one I used:
http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.summitjournal.com&type=text&text=&from=eng&to=fin
both in site.xml and in xdocs/translate.xml type content files.

I am not sure why it won't work for your dev but I am using F7 not F8

If this helps anyone I also successfully used:
    && in place of && in xslt files also for those bleak times I 
have to rely on a small javascript.

&amp won't work neither will   or any of those. just get a good 
ascii ref to keep the validators happy.

Helena

Moshe Yudkowsky wrote:

>
> I wrote:
> >>
> >>>I just ran my forrest files through a validator, and to my dismay I 
> see
> >>>that there's a problem.
> >>>
> >>>In site.xml, some of the URLs I enter have an "&" character in them. I
> >>>write these as HTML entities; otherwise site.xml won't validate.
>
> Helena Edelson wrote:
>
> > concat and replace & with &#38 your url's.
>
> If I use "&" instead of & in the url in site.xml, I have the 
> same problem.
>
> If I use "&", I get & resulting html output. That works 
> and that validates, so that will be my workaround in the meantime.
>
>
> David Crossley wrote:
>
> > Perhaps it is this ...
> > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-241
> > "character entities (e.g. ampersand) are expanded again for href or 
> src attributes"
>
> That is indeed the issue. But I didn't understand the resolution; does 
> that mean I need to use 0.8-dev to get the fix incorporated?
>
> Ross, I will assume that since David's issue tracked this, I don't 
> need to raise a separate issue on the tracker.
>
>