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

Mike Brown wrote:
> Stephen Cunliffe wrote:
>> Is there a function/transformation available in XSL that will allow me
>> to encode URLs in HTML files?
[snip]
> Some XSLT processors (namely SAXON) will automatically URL-encode the
> values of href attributes. Even though you can turn this off in SAXON,
> there are reasons why this is undesirable in general and I don't
> recommend that other processors adopt this practice.

Is Saxon just following the instructions for the HTML output method in
XSLT1.0:

"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."
                  http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method

Or does it go beyond this?
                  
Jeni

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