There's been a very recent decision on this, that the base URI shouldn't be
%-encoded. (XML Base says it should but Infoset says it shouldn't). I don't
guarantee that Saxon 8.8 implements this decision - I need to check.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 September 2006 11:25
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  base uri and % encoding
> 
> 
> Somewhere between the xsl, xquery, xdm, xml base and xml 
> infoset drafts I got confused about when and if the values returned by
> base-uri() and friends are % encoded.
> 
> using saxonB 8.8j as a reference, in XQuery 
> 
> 
>    declare base-uri "data:,""";
>    static-base-uri()
> 
> returns
> 
> data:,"
> 
> 
> while the XSL
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> xml:base="data:,&quot;">
>   <xsl:template name="main">
>     <xsl:value-of select="static-base-uri()"/>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> returns
> 
> data:,%22
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Are both those answers correct?
> If so, is it possible for _any_ XSL stylesheet to produce the 
> same output as the first XQuery?
> If not, which one is wrong?
> 
> David