Re: What is %26 doing in my HTML?

Zack Brown wrote:
> I'm seeing my '&'s translated into '%26' when producing HTML output.

Bug in xsltproc.

Probably also indicative of a very poor decision made by some XSLT processor
vendors early on. Inspired by this clause in the XSLT spec..

  The html output method should escape non-ASCII characters in URI attribute 
  values using the method recommended in Section B.2.1 of the HTML 4.0 
  Recommendation.

...they thought it would be nice to apply %-escaping to certain ASCII 
characters (like '&') as well. Of course this presumes that you didn't know 
what you were doing when you assembled the URI, and makes it impossible to
properly serialize a URI that needs to contain reserved characters which 
maintain their special meaning.

   - Mike
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