How do I make this URL valid?

[Dave Saville]

I have been trying to make pages XHTML compliant - mostly it is no
bother but I have a problem with some links:

<a
href="http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=556761&Y=146897&A=Y
&Z=3">The Plough, Hildenborough</a>

For example. The W3C validator barfs on all the N=1234 type things
above. Is there any way to encode/escape, I suspect the =, such that
the link still works and the validator is happy?

TIA

Regards

Dave Saville

NB switch saville for nospam in address

 

[Chris Morris]

<a
href="http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=556761&Y=146897&A=Y
&Z=3">The Plough, Hildenborough</a>

<a href="http://...?...761&amp;Y=...&amp;A=...&amp;Z=">...

Ampersands must be escaped to &amp; in XHTML (well, except when part
of an entity like &lt;, obviously) - this includes inside attribute values.

 

[Dave Saville]

<a href="http://...?...761&amp;Y=...&amp;A=...&amp;Z=">...

Ampersands must be escaped to &amp; in XHTML (well, except when part
of an entity like &lt;, obviously) - this includes inside attribute values.

Thank you Chris - Somehow I expected the link not to work with &amp;
Should have tried it I guess

Regards

Dave Saville

NB switch saville for nospam in address