A user asked me recently why, when he put the words "New York" into the VALUE parameter of a text box that they didn't show up. The simple answer: he forgot his double quote characters. In previous tips, we talked about how HTML deals with double quote characters. If you have a parameter without spaces, HTML will handle the value without double quotes, as shown here:
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However, if the value you are trying to put in has a space, the space marks the end of the value, as far as HTML is concerned. In that case, you have to wrap the value in double quote characters.
In addition, if you're learning XML, XML requires that all HTML tags have all their parameters wrapped in double quote characters, so it's probably a good habit to get into now.