Re: Xalan Vs. Output Escaping

XML Source        :  ..... & ....... & ....... %3A .....
value-of doe="no" :  ..... & ... & ... %3A .....
value-of doe="yes":  ..... & ....... & ....... %3A .....
curly braces {}   :  ..... & ....... & ....... %253A ...



You've given almost no information as to what your input doc or
stylesheet looked like, but I'll try to make some guesses.

curly braces are the syntax of attribute value templates, which 
means that an XPath can be evaluated inside an attribute value..
The have no effect at all on the way characters are linearised.

You say the XML source has ... & ... here I can't guess what you have as
an unquoted & is a syntax error.
perhaps you have one of the equivalent forms &amp; or <![CDATA&]]> 

the two examples of value-of are what I'd expect given an input of &amp;
in one case the & is escaped, and in the other it is not.

% is not special in XML or XSL so %3A is just character data and goes
through just like any other simple character string...

Unless you are using the html output method and this is a uri attribute
(href or src etc) in which case ascii characters that are not allowed
unquoted in URI will be quoted using URI conventions. So % comes out as
%25, leaving the 3A. Although even here & should have come out as &amp;.

So I don't see how you can get either the input you state or the third
output.

David

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