'%' in output attributes?

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Subject: '%' in output attributes?
From: David Engberg <dave.engberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:55:13 -0700

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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'%' in output attributes? David Engberg - Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:55:13 -0700 <= David Carlisle - Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:09:56 +0100 (BST)

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