> but either way, I'm getting the unusable "&" embedded in the URL
> which appears as the value of the src or rel attributes in the resulting
> HTML document.

why do you say it's unusable? What else would you want.
You can not have an unquoted & in HTML any more than you can in XML.
Some browsers may choose not to flag the error and allow an unquoted &
but it is still wrong.

(This is a FAQ I'm sure there must be something about this in the faq
for this list at dave pawson's site)

David

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