RE: Ampersand for URLs

Again,

you don't use it as URL, you just *write* it in this form within HTML. These
are different things.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas B.
> Passin
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:18 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Ampersand for URLs
>
>
> No matte what various browsers may or may not accept, using sgml/xml
> entities like "&" in a url does not conform with the rfc.
> The rfc wants
> you to use the %xx syntax. like "%20" for a space.  So one
> approach would be
> to use xslt's translation feature to substitute "%26" for "&" in
> the text of
> the url.
>
> Another would be to output the url inside an <xsl:value-of> element with
> disable-output-escaping='yes'.
>
> Cheerss,
>
> Tom P
>
>
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