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Twig::, Xalan, and Character Escaping
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- Subject: [xsl] Twig::, Xalan, and Character Escaping
- From: "Monte Hayward" <monte at singingfish dot com> (by way of MulberryTechnologies List Owner)
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:58:03 -0500
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I'm writing algorithmically identical code for Perl and Java, using Twig:: and Xalan 1.2.2, respectively. Am running into yet
another interesting XSL / XML puzzle.
Because I am trying to shove normal URLs and javascript calls into a single Element Value, I want to store and retrieve Strings of
two types:
1. javascript:myFunc('http://thesite.com/file.ram&cp=1999+Owner&spk=383608&rmp');
2. http://site.com/player.asp?id=1032" TARGET="player
That's right - I want those oddly placed quote marks in example 2. And I don't want them encoded as latin-iso char equivalents or
URL encoding.
The XML that is delivered:
1. <HRF>javascript:myFunc('http://site.com/file.ram&cp=1999+Owner&spk=383608&rmp');</HRF>
2. <HRF>http://site.com/influences.mov?id=1012&foo=bar" TARGET="playwin</HRF>
What TWIG:: Outputs:
1. myFunct('http://site.com/file.ram&cp=&spk=&rmp');
Wrong![Netscape does not decode the '. Javascript error.]
2. http://site.com/player.asp?id=1032&foo=bar" TARGET="playwin
Wrong! " should have converted to "
What Xalan spews:
1. javascript:p('http://www.virtuetv.com/foo.asx&cp=&spk=3836082&wmp');
Correct!
2. http://site.com/player.asp?id=1032&foo=bar%22%20TARGET=%22p
Wrong! Xalan is somehow URL-encoding the String!
Even though we know that XSL does not have a URLencode() method!
If I give up the hope of sending URLs of type 2 to a new browser window (target=playwin), I solve one problem, the quote mess. Lose
one feature, kill one bug.
With type 1, TWIG always gives me a wrong result, it seems. The ' does not get decoded by Netscape or IE.
Anyone have ideas regarding character encodings across different parsers and XSL Transform Engines?
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