Hi I have a dynamic page that doesnt validate because I have special characters such as "&" in the data. I was wondering if I should do a find and replace of all those ampersand signs and replace them with the safe "&" code. Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance!
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Jump to PostHow is this a MySql issue?
Yes, I would just go ahead and replace the HTML/XML special characters. There are utilities available that can do this 'semi-automatically' for you.
Jump to PostOK, I didn't correctly read your mind about 'dynamic page'.
I I were posting your question in this forum, I hope I'd have thought to ask it like: Is there a way to have MySql convert HTML entities (such as '&' --> '&') for use in a dynamic web …
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