diff --git a/linkcheck/HtmlParser/htmllib.py b/linkcheck/HtmlParser/htmllib.py
index 819d4fa9..e7e0b493 100644
--- a/linkcheck/HtmlParser/htmllib.py
+++ b/linkcheck/HtmlParser/htmllib.py
@@ -212,10 +212,3 @@ def quote_attrval (s):
         else:
             res.append(u"&#%d;" % ord(c))
     return u"".join(res)
-
-
-def quote_val (s):
-    s = s.replace('&', "&")
-    s = s.replace('<', "&lt;")
-    s = s.replace('>', "&gt;")
-    return s