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Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > Well, there is this uri-escape function in xpath 2.0: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-operators/#func-escape-uri > sadly, though, it only came into existence two months ago (Jun 17). > > It would be enough since then "translate(escape-uri(str, true), '%', '=')" > would give me a suitable string for RFC822 headers when wrapped with > =?utf-8?Q?...?= > > However, this function doesn't explain very clearly what is done for > non-ascii characters; are they represented by a utf-8 stream? "The effect of the function is to replace any special character in the string by an escape sequence of the form %xx%yy..., where xxyy... is the hexadecimal representation of the octets used to represent the character in UTF-8." Seems clear enough to me, and would be what you want. And you should be able to use it reliably in client side processors by 2005 or so. > Portability is an issue. :-( The pages are all xml with the intention that > then browsers can use different xsl to format them to user taste. Some would start laughing at this point. :) - Mike ____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | resume: http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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