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Re: What is %26 doing in my HTML?
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:22:29PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
> Zack Brown wrote:
> > I'm seeing my '&'s translated into '%26' when producing HTML output.
>
> Bug in xsltproc.
Great.
Any recommendations for an xslt processor that:
* is freely available for Linux
* is at least as fast as xsltproc
* allows multiple xslt variables to be set from the command line
?
Many thanks,
Zack
>
> Probably also indicative of a very poor decision made by some XSLT processor
> vendors early on. Inspired by this clause in the XSLT spec..
>
> The html output method should escape non-ASCII characters in URI attribute
> values using the method recommended in Section B.2.1 of the HTML 4.0
> Recommendation.
>
> ...they thought it would be nice to apply %-escaping to certain ASCII
> characters (like '&') as well. Of course this presumes that you didn't know
> what you were doing when you assembled the URI, and makes it impossible to
> properly serialize a URI that needs to contain reserved characters which
> maintain their special meaning.
>
> - Mike
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