ACTINIC_REFERRER External Links and W3C Validation

[James13009]

I know that you can not validate actinic pages, however my site is a mixture of static pages and actinic pages.

On my perfectly formed static XHTML pages I have added

<a href="http://www.polymax.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/">VIEW BASKET </a><img src="http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/CartSpacers.gif" alt="-" /> <a href="http://www.polymax.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/">CHECKOUT.</a>

Which is a basket and checkout link to these pages. However this has scorned my static pages with three validation errors

Is there a work around?

Line 201, Column 143: general entity "ACTINIC_REFERRER" not defined and no default entity
…k/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.polymax.co.u…

Line 201, Column 159: reference to entity "ACTINIC_REFERRER" for which no system identifier could be generated
…01.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/">VIE…

Line 201, Column 370: reference to entity "ACTINIC_REFERRER" for which no system identifier could be generated
…01.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/">CHE…

[Mike Hughes]

That seems a bit odd to me.

Your href links are enclosed in "" which means the validator should just accept them as part of the link.

You can try using single 's or go shout at the validator people.

Mike

[James13009]

No good I am afraid

[Duncan Rounding]

You could try a JavaScript document.write to obfuscate the link or part if it.

[NormanRouxel]

Have you considered that the validator may be the thing that's wrong?

Try other validators.

[James13009]

You could try a JavaScript document.write to obfuscate the link or part if it.

Worked a treat, thank you.

For referance:

  <script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1" type="text/javascript"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">/* <![CDATA[ */
document.write('<a href="http://www.polymax.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/">VIEW BASKET </a><img src="http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/CartSpacers.gif" alt="-" /> <a href="http://www.polymax.co.uk/cgi-bin/ca000001.pl?ACTION=SHOWCART&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.polymax.co.uk/acatalog/">CHECKOUT.</a>');

/* ]]> */</script>