XHTML and the & in url's.

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Date: 12/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:59:50 GMT

I've been trying to convert my habits over to XHTML.

One stumbling block, does one have to use & in URL's to separate
form variables? foo

Of course, &name is choked on, because it's an entity reference w/out
a semicolon.

One thing I've seen CGI.pm (from the perl world) do is accept semi-colons:

<a href="foo.cgi?q=1;name=jerry">foo</a>

This makes more sense to me, but is it an actual standard? if so, how would
I get PHP to use it instead of &? (without any editing of PHP's .ini files)

Going through and changing & to &amp; in my URL's would probably break lots
of things and be harder to maintain. Short of parsing the query string myself,
there doesn't seem to be a lot of alternatives.

Ideas? Any other solutions?

Jamie 

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