Re: Q.) Encode URL inside HTML Anchor Tag.

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

David Carlisle wrote:
> You don't need to apply any function, The XSL processor will
> autonmatically URL encode href attributes when using  the
> html output method.

No. It is the coder's responsibility to ensure that the value is a
properly encoded URI before it is serialized.

For href and other attributes that the HTML DTDs say take a URI value, the
XSLT spec only says that non-ASCII characters should be automatically
URL-encoded.

This is not equivalent to the broad stroke of applying URL-encoding to the
entire attribute value. It does not follow that '%' and ' ' in the value
should be forced to be '%25' and '%20' upon serialization, for example.

   - Mike
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