Re: [boost] spaces in URIs

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-08 10:06:58

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> At 01:38 PM 10/3/2002, David Abrahams wrote:
>  >I've started to run all my HTML through HTMLTidy as part of my procedure
>  >(the command-line tidy integrates nicely with emacs!), and it's begun to
>  >complain about named references in URIs that contain spaces, e.g.
>  >
>  >http://www.boost.org/libs/utility/utility.htm#Class noncopyable
>  >
>  >This one is invalid due to the space. HTMLTidy changes the space to %20,
>  >but then my browser can't follow the link to its end.
> 
> Sorry for asking the obvious, but...
> 
> * Did you also change the utility.htm target anchor to use %20?

No, I was hoping it would be considered identical. My hope was to keep
HTMLTidy happy locally without having to go and fix up other parts of
Boost, possibly breaking other cross-references.

> * What browser are you using?

IE (6 I think).

>  > I tried to come up
>  >with a grep expression which would find all instances of this, but my
>  >talent with grep ran out of road.
> 
> But do we know what is actually valid?  It is pretty scary if even
> HTMLTidy can't figure out the "right way".  Need to do some research.

I don't know what you mean. HTMLTidy claims the space is illegal and
is unambiguous about it.

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           David Abrahams * Boost Consulting
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