RE: Empty spaces turn to %20

> From: Jarkko.Moilanen@xxxxxx [mailto:Jarkko.Moilanen@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:00 AM
> Subject:  Empty spaces turn to %20
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am getting data from html form, which has text input fields. 
> I pass the QUERY_STRING to sh script which turns it in to 
> XML. Then I transform the XML to html with XSLT. 
> 
> Problem is how ever that the browser generates %20 to every 
> empty space. 
> 
> Now I have XMl which looks like this:
> <Publication>
> <Author>Firstname%20Lastname</Author>
> <Pubname>Text%20with%20spaces</Pubname>
> </Publication>
> 
> Any change with XSLT to get rid of these %20's in the 
> text parts?

Use the translate() function:

<xsl:value-of select="translate(text(),'%20',' ')"/>

If you're prepopulating an HTML form with these values, you can do something
like:

<input type="text" value="{translate(Author,'%20',' ')}"/>

hth,
b.

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