Re: ox.html causes w3c xhtml validation

[Colin Baxter]

Dear Kyle,

Thanks for your reply.

>>>>> Kyle Meyer <address@hidden> writes:

    > Colin Baxter <address@hidden> writes:
    >> ----- Begin ----- Warning Line 205, Column 74: cannot generate
    >> system identifier for general entity "dn"
    >> 
    >> …rn:btih:1f739d935676111cfff4b4693e3816e664797050&dn=gpl-3.0.txt
    >> GPL-v3-or-Later
    >> 
    >> An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no
    >> reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by
    >> misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by
    >> leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of
    >> this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the
    >> WDG in "Ampersands in URLs".
    >> 
    >> ----- End -------
    >> 
    >> The cause is ox-html, which has the following lines
    >> 
    >> ./lisp/ox-html.el:235:// @license
    >> 
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1f739d935676111cfff4b4693e3816e664797050&dn=gpl-3.0.txt
    >> GPL-v3-or-Later
    > [...]
    >> I think the culprit is commit
    >> 68fa5e589f00c8d5b4f7f0dc70be6ebe59238bb8, 11 Feb.
    >> 
    >> Is it possible to fix this?

    > From what I gather from briefly searching around (mostly based on
    > this information [0]), I don't think there's an easy fix for
    > inline javascript.

In my opinion, if it can't be fixed then the changes should be
removed. Surely, we cannot have an org-mode that knowingly
exports/publishes something that causes a validation error!

    > I wonder if Arne [+cc], who suggested the change [1], knows of a
    > solution.

    > [0]: https://mrcoles.com/blog/how-use-amersands-html-encode/ [1]:
    > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2019-11/msg00030.html

Best wishes,

Colin.

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