RE: URL encoding of UTF-8 data in MSXML

URLs in href attributes, and other attributes where URLs are expected,
should be %HH-encoded automatically if you use the HTML output method.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjorn Boxstart [mailto:Boxstart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 December 2004 09:24
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  URL encoding of UTF-8 data in MSXML
>
>
>  Hello all,
>
> From within an XSL-T stylesheet I need to create HTML
> hyperlinks in the output HTML files. The data has UTF-8
> encoding and so does the resulting HTML file. The data that
> is used for the links contains special characters and must
> therefore be URL encoded. I found a way to do this by use of
> named templates. The thing is however that this method
> (mentioned somewhere in the archive of this list) doesn't
> handle characters outside latin-1 correctly (e.g. russian
> texts). Because I use MSXML (must) I can't use the Java class
> and method URLEncoder.encode().
>
> Can anybody tell me how to encode URL's from within a XSL-T
> stylesheet (run on a msxml processor). I know that a solution
> might be mentioned somewhere in the archive of this list, but
> that link doesn't seem to be working anymore.
>
> Thanks in advance for your reaction!
>
> Bjvrn