RE: ampersands in URL as attribute value causing probl

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> [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.



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