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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