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'%' in output attributes?
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- Subject: '%' in output attributes?
- From: David Engberg <dave dot engberg at driveway dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:55:13 -0700
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Didn't see this one in the FAQ or histories, although it's closely related
to the '&' in attributes question ...
I want to produce HTML links that contain escaped characters, but when I
put this in XSL:
<a href="foo.cgi?formula=xml%2Bxsl&result=html">...</a>
It turns into this in HTML (Saxon 5.1, IBM's XML parser):
<a href="foo.cgi?formula=xml%252Bxsl&result=html">...</a>
Notice that the intended "%2B" got escaped to "%252B".
Browsers seem to handle the '&' in the URLs by translating to '&', but
the escaped '%252B' goes all the way through to the server when the link is
clicked.
The only way I have found to get an unescaped '%' into output HTML so far
has been by constructing the link manually using <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes">, but I know that's a sign I'm doing
something wrong. Anyone know the right way to do this?
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