Re: Use of ampersands in name value pairs of a url

  The problem is with the query string of the url (the bit after the ?).
  Afaik, name-value pairs need to separated ampersands, such as:

  ?one=value1&two=value2&three=value3

That's what the URL has but like any string, to put that into an XML file
or HTMl file you have to quote the &.

Some legacy browsers try to be kind by not enforcing that you quote the
& but that's not kind, only confusing.

If you type the above into a location/address bar it has to be as above,
but if you type it into a src attribute it has to be 


?one=value1&two=value2&three=value3

Otherwise the document it in is not valid (or not well formed)

  I know that url escaping allows for %26 to be used instead of ampersands
 - but apparently not for the separator, this needs to be an actual
  ampersand.

Yes, you don't want url escaping here, that would be used to get a &
_into_ the value rather than be a separator.


  What is the usual technique to create the query string in xsl?

Just go with the flow and let XSLT force you into doing the right thing.

David

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