# Validation Ahhhhh

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/validation-ahhhhh/255295>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [March 20, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/validation-ahhhhh/255295 "2008-03-20T20:26:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![m00nz00mer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@m00nz00mer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/m00nz00mer)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/validation-ahhhhh/255295/1 "2008-03-20T20:26:48Z")

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hey i know this isnt necesseraly php but im tying to validate my code and ive got one error which is…

“Line 71, Column 1482: character “&” is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.  
…bookinfo.php?bookID=059600382X”\>HTML & XHTML: the Definitive Guide  
\<"

When i remove this code it works:  
echo ‘\<div class=“categoryLinks”\>\<div class=“detailTextGrey”\>Book Title: \</div\>\<a href="bookinfo.php?bookID=’.$row[‘bookISBN’].’"\>’.$row[‘bookTitle’].’  
\<div class=“detailTextGrey”\>Author(s): \</div\>\<div class=“detailText”\>’.$authArray[‘authorName’].’ (’.$row[‘bookYear’].’) \</div\>\</div\>

';  
}

Can anyone spot the error?