109556 - Character reference (i.e. &amp) not being translated correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Alain Picard]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5+)
Gecko/20011109
BuildID:    2001110903

The character reference are not being translated correctly.

Tested and works correctly in IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to supplied URL
2.look at S&ampT 


Actual Results:  shows S&ampT

Expected Results:  S&T

HTML 4.01 section 5.3.2 Character references

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

&amp is incorrect. It should be & (note the missing ;)

QA: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.3.2

(Should this bug be marked invalid or is this a quirks thing?)

Comment 2

[Sebastian Biallas]

&amp is correct too, but must be followed by a space (or other separator).
See Bug 64190 ...
But this bug seems to be INVALID

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

INVALID, the parser can't infer from context that the entity ends there.