W3C and ASP

...is it possible

[DaveN]

This is NON compliant

<a href="whats_on.asp?m=3&y=2002">

but can you make compliant ?

DaveN

[brotherhood of LAN]

Wait 10 years for uniform W3C standards to catch up? :)

At a guess I would say the ? is causing problems, purely because of the problems spiders have with it

[Xoc]

<a href="whats_on.asp?m=3&amp;y=2002">

[leogah]

& was a poor choice for separator since it conflicts with its use in starting entities.

It isn't really likely to bite you, as an author (apart from not validating) unless you are unlucky and pick a real entity name
(& lang tends to be one).

There is a note in the HTML 4.01 recommentaiton about it [w3.org ]

Many CGI processors (PHP, Perl::CGI, Python) do now let you write
<a href="whats_on.asp?m=3;y=2002">. If your server supports it, I find it easier to remember. Come to think of it, I find it easier to remember even if your server doesn't. ;)