[MYFACES-1774] HtmlLinkRenderer should output & instead of & as the url param separator within href attribute according to HTML Spec

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.1.5, 1.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.7, 1.2.7
• Component/s: General, JSR-127, JSR-252
• Assignee: Manfred Geiler
• Reporter: Manfred Geiler
• Created: 21/Nov/07 12:32
• Updated: 01/Jun/09 23:27
• Resolved: 01/Jun/09 23:27

Description

Currently a <h:outputLink> with nested <f:param> components is rendered as
<a href="somepage?foo=1&bar=2">...</a>

According to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ the character entity "&" should be used instead of "&":
"Authors should use "&" (ASCII decimal 38) instead of "&" to avoid confusion with the beginning of a character reference (entity reference open delimiter). Authors should also use "&" in attribute values since character references are allowed within CDATA attribute values."

Though current browsers seem to have no problem with "&" characters within href attributes, this issue gets serious when using XHTML. Not using the character entity "&" instead of "&" leads to invalid (not well-formed) XML data!
Therefore I think we should fix this.

BTW, the RI renders the wrong "&" as well.

Issue Links

• is related to: MYFACES-1841 HtmlResponseWriterImpl.writeURIAttribute does not perform proper URLs encoding ( ex: & should be encoded in &amp)