Links doesn't use the correct syntax.

The way the links are now they are not using the correct syntax and the pages as a whole will not validate:

Examples:
<a href="http://www.worlduk.com/wedding/Favour_bags.html" class="us82jsdd" />Wedding favours</a>
The atag should only be closed once.

<a href="http://www.projectresponder.com/content.asp?cid=12&pid=138" class="us82jsdd" />Personal Emergency Response System</a>
The a tag should only be closed once.
URI's with & should be written &amp;

 

I noticed that as well.

I have a thing about my pages being validated

 

I noticed it too when I made some page changes and tried to validate my work. That needs to be repaired.

 

Interestingly enough, it's not happening everytime I validate. I only saw it twice in quite a few checks now that I think of it. I pretty much ignored it because it was a coop ad (external source), my code was ok. It came up so I kinda blurted that out.

If I see it happen again, I will make a note of the ad and post it.

 

 Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.

   1.

      Line 523, column 133: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "cat"

      ...ttp://portal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - We

      An entity reference was found in the document, but there is no reference by that name defined. Often this is caused by misspelling the reference name, unencoded ampersands, or by leaving off the trailing semicolon (;). The most common cause of this error is unencoded ampersands in URLs as described by the WDG in "Ampersands in URLs".

      Entity references start with an ampersand (&) and end with a semicolon (;). If you want to use a literal ampersand in your document you must encode it as "&" (even inside URLs!). Be careful to end entity references with a semicolon or your entity reference may get interpreted in connection with the following text. Also keep in mind that named entity references are case-sensitive; &Aelig; and æ are different characters.

      Note that in most documents, errors related to entity references will trigger up to 5 separate messages from the Validator. Usually these will all disappear when the original problem is fixed.

      ✉
   2.

      Line 523, column 133: general entity "cat" not defined and no default entity

      ...ttp://portal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - We

      This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.

      ✉
   3.

      Line 523, column 136: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter

      ...://portal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web D

      If you meant to include an entity that starts with "&", then you should terminate it with ";". Another reason for this error message is that you inadvertently created an entity by failing to escape an "&" character just before this text.

      ✉
   4.

      Line 523, column 136: reference to external entity in attribute value

      ...://portal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web D

      This is generally the sign of an ampersand that was not properly escaped for inclusion in an attribute, in a href for example. You will need to escape all instances of '&' into '&'.

      ✉
   5.

      Line 523, column 136: reference to entity "cat" for which no system identifier could be generated

      ...://portal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web D

      This is usually a cascading error caused by a an undefined entity reference or use of an unencoded ampersand (&) in an URL or body text. See the previous message for further details.

      ✉
   6.

      Line 523, column 132: entity was defined here

      ...http://portal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - W
   7.

      Line 523, column 141: cannot generate system identifier for general entity "Business"

      ...rtal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web Direct

      ✉
   8.

      Line 523, column 141: general entity "Business" not defined and no default entity

      ...rtal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web Direct

      ✉
   9.

      Line 523, column 149: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter

      ...incs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web Directory</a>&

      ✉
  10.

      Line 523, column 149: reference to external entity in attribute value

      ...incs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web Directory</a>&

      ✉
  11.

      Line 523, column 149: reference to entity "Business" for which no system identifier could be generated

      ...incs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web Directory</a>&

      ✉
  12.

      Line 523, column 140: entity was defined here

      ...ortal.xirincs.com/?lang=english&cat=146&Business">Business Portal - Web Direc

Code (markup):

Next refresh and the page validates again. It has to do with html special chars in urls if I had to guess.

Thanks

 

The validation problems I've noticed with some ads was because of "unencoded ampersands."