RE: special chars appearing in href - %09 %0A etc

> I am trying to create href out of my xsl but some special characters 
> like %09 and %0A are getting added to the href.

The characters are copied from your stylesheet and then escaped using
the URI escaping rules.

> How can i avoid this

Enclose the characters you actually want to output in <xsl:text>

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> 
> My XSL is :
> 
>                         <a>
>                             <xsl:attribute name="href">
>                                                         <xsl:value-of 
> select="$url"/>?a=b&amp;c=d
>                             </xsl:attribute>
>                             <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>                         </a>   
> 
> The href produced is : 
> http://localhost:8080/report/servlet/RepManagerServlet?a=b&c=d
 
%0A%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09

What could be the problem.
I am using xalan and xerces.

regds
Jitu



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