Quick question about & 2

[PockyBum522]

The script:

<shortcut target="\Windows\iexplore.exe" args="

http://www.google.com/xhtml?q=&near=FL&dm=none&site=local&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Search"

iconfile="\storage\glicon.ico"/>

Returns a semicolon error because it contains the & character. How do I get arounf this? I need that url like that.

 

[ChrisHunt]

I need that url like that.

Are you sure?

http://www.google.com/xhtml?near=FL&site=local

looks the same to me. Either way, you can't have unencoded & signs in an XML document. You have to replace all &'s with [tt]&amp;[/tt] - you've already done that with half the &'s in your URL, so just do so for the rest of them.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[tsuji]

>[tt]<shortcut target="\Windows\iexplore.exe" args="

http://www.google.com/xhtml?q=&amp;...amp;hl=en&amp;lr=&;ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Search"

iconfile="\storage\glicon.ico"/>[/tt]

Do this?

[tt] <shortcut target="\Windows\iexplore.exe" args="

http://www.google.com/xhtml?q=&#38;...en&#38;lr=&#38;ie=ISO-8859-1&#38;btnG=Search"

iconfile="\storage\glicon.ico"/>[/tt]

 

[PockyBum522]

Thank you very much, I'll give you a star as soon as I test it.

 

[tsuji]

I had not eliminated enough of &amp; there remains one to eliminate, if I can repeat the line!
[tt]
<shortcut target="\Windows\iexplore.exe" args="

http://www.google.com/xhtml?q=&#38;near=FL&amp;#38;dm=none&#38;site=local&#38;hl=en&;#38;lr=

[highlight]#38;[/highlight]ie=ISO-8859-1&#38;btnG=Search" iconfile="\storage\glicon.ico"/>[/tt]

 

[tsuji]

Upon reading, I think I'd practically forgotten to backspace all the &amp; parts! leaving traces everywhere. The idea is that rather to use "&amp;", at their places, use instead "&#38;". I mess all up in the editing of the line, so I won't relist the line!

 

[ChrisHunt]

&amp; and &#38; are equivalent - there's no technical reason to favour one over the other. Personally I find &amp; easier to remember.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[tsuji]

>&amp; and &#38; are equivalent ...

The op's observation of error is a fact. To render the thing in controls under the webpage, it equivalence is no longer.

 

[ChrisHunt]

The original poster posted a URL with a mixture of properly encoded [tt]&amp;[/tt]s and plain [tt]&[/tt] signs:

<shortcut target="\Windows\iexplore.exe" args="

http://www.google.com/xhtml?q=

[green]&amp;[/green]near=FL[red]&[/red]dm=none[red]&[/red]site=local[green]&amp;[/green]hl=en[green]&amp;[/green]lr=[red]&[/red];ie=ISO-8859-1[red]&[/red]btnG=Search" iconfile="\storage\glicon.ico"/>

That's what's causing his/her problems. You can encode those [tt]&[/tt] signs with either more [tt]&amp;[/tt]s or [tt]&#38;[/tt]s, or a mixture of the two if you prefer - they're equivalent.

Actaully, as I observed above, you can drop a lot of extraneous parameters in that Google URL to get this:

<shortcut target="\Windows\iexplore.exe" args="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com/xhtml?near=FL&amp;site=local"[/URL] iconfile="\storage\glicon.ico"/>

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd