160967 - & does not resolv to &

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[miki]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

XHTML demand that & in URL will be represent by &

work ( but not XHTML )
<script>window.opener.location.replace('page.html?leaf=3&message=Z');</script>

Dont work ( Correct XHTML )

<script>window.opener.location.replace('page.html?leaf=3&amp;message=Z');</script>


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.write the bad code in html file
2.click on it
3.see result

Actual Results:  drop the "message = Z variable" becouse its not translate &amp;

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

If you're serving up your XHTML as text/html, this bug is invalid.  Entity
replacement does _not_ happen in script in HTML.  It _does_ happen in XHTML.  In
order to serve XHTML as text/html it must satisfy appendix C of the XHTML
specification, and item C4 is:

  Use external style sheets if your style sheet uses < or & or ]]> or --. Use
  external scripts if your script uses < or & or ]]> or --

precisely because of this issue.

Please reopen if you are serving your XHTML as application/xhtml+xml or as
text/xml; in that case this bug is valid.

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

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