SV: XSL, Escaping, undocumented?

XSL will try to retrieve a value from the URL:
www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&applysummertime=no
 - which, of course, is invalid to ASP. ASP is not supposed to convert the
URL. The browser is the only device that converts content, that is, XML,
HTML etc.

The question is, more directly: How do I put a & in an URL, that I can pass
to the document() function.



I have another question:
How do I combine two variables?
Say, I have the variables; first, second, third - each with the respective
values 1, 2, 3.

How do I do something like: <xsl:value-of select="$first$second$third"/> (in
ASP you would write >> first & second & third << to get the value "123".

That way, I could, perhaps, define a variable with the value of "&", and use
it in the URL?

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Sendt: 15. juni 2003 11:38
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Emne: Re:  XSL, Escaping, undocumented?


FireNet - Information wrote:

> I want this functionality in XSL:
> <xsl:variable name="time"
> select="document('www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&applysummertime=no')"/>
>
> The above ASP will return an XML document that will contain the time in
the
> specified state.
> My problem is that the MSXML XSL transformation handles the "&" character
as
> an illegal character.
> If I write "&amp;", it doesn't convert it to the actual amp character,
which
> means that the ASP script reads the state variable like
> "la&amp;applysummertime=no"..

Then there is something wrong with the ASP script or IIS, because using
&amp;
is the only valid way both in XML and HTML.

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Oleg Tkachenko
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Multiconn Technologies, Israel


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