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> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Phillip > Rhodes > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:41 PM > To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: ampersands in URL as attribute value causing problems? > > > I am down in the dumps about this. Thanks for any help. > > I have an well formed xhml document. > In the document, I have "img" elements that have a "src" attribute. > The attribute value of the "src" attribute is a URL. > The URL has ampersands in it. For it to be a valid XML document, all the > ampersands are escaped as & Correct. > The URL's do not work properly if they have the ampersands escaped. They > work fine if they are unescaped. What do you mean by "they do not work"? They MUST work. Please give a more detailed description. You can easily test this by hand-writing an HTML document and opening it in a browser. > http://test?x=x&x=1&x=2 works fine > http://test?x=x&x=1&x=2 Does not work > > My question is, how can I represent a URL in xhtml without the ampersands > being escaped and have it still be valid xml? No. > Should I consider running my xhtml document through a transformation that > will unescape the ampersands? No. > As an aside, I am using JDOM. It is a library that facilitates building > xml documents. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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