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Ampersand in URL is being saved to sitemap as "&" resulting in bad URL
« on: June 03, 2013, 11:42:39 PM »
Hi there.  We've been working to get XML Sitemaps automated and tuned so that we get the exact results that we're looking for; however, we're unable to determine why all URLs that include an "&" are being encoded as "&".

Here's a URL example that results in a bad request:
my.domain.com/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10370&item=1597404

The correct URL is:
my.domain.com/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10370&item=1597404


I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has ran into this issue and what was done to correct it.  Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!
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Re: Ampersand in URL is being saved to sitemap as "&" resulting in bad URL
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2013, 12:26:07 PM »
Hello,

all links in sitemap are "urlencoded" according with sitemaps protocol: [ External links are visible to logged in users only ]
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Re: Ampersand in URL is being saved to sitemap as "&" resulting in bad URL
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2013, 04:19:38 PM »
Per w3c, URL encoding for "&" is "%26", and in this case it's coding it like you would to put an & symbol into HTML code, which is incorrect for this use because it isn't usable by the browser in this format.

Reference: w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp
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Re: Ampersand in URL is being saved to sitemap as "&" resulting in bad URL
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2013, 07:59:58 AM »
That document is for *HTML URL Encoding*, which doesn't apply to xml sitemap.
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