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Bruce Cantor

Subject: xquery escaping ambarsand when downloading delimited file
Author: Bruce Cantor
Date: 23 Aug 2022 12:08 PM

Hi

Help appreciated regarding this funny little problem:

I have created this very small xquery script that downloads a stock file from a vendor:

declare variable $ItemURL := doc(resolve-uri("../Config/config.xml", fn:static-base-uri()))/config/PowerTech/WS/@ItemURL;
declare variable $request := doc(resolve-uri("../Config/config.xml", fn:static-base-uri()))/config/PowerTech/request;

let $httpResponse := ddtek:http-get($ItemURL,$request)

return $httpResponse/response/response-body/text()

The script downloads fine, but a lot of products are made by this manufactor 'Hewlett & Packard Enterprise' and after the download I get this instead: 'Hewlett & Packard Enterprise' which is not good when the file is delimited with the character semikolon.

I tried to play with the setting response-data-type in the request but this makes no difference.

How can I make the script make a raw download, not escaping the ambersand?

This is the content of my config file:

<PowerTech>
<WS ItemURL="https://powertech-electronics.shops4ecommerce.de/shop/preislistehummer04.txt"/>
<request>
<request-header>
<header name="Authorization" value="Basic xxxx"/>
<header name="Content-Type" value="text/plain"/>
<header name="response-data-type" value="text"/>
</request-header>
</request>
</PowerTech>

kind regards
Bruce

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: xquery escaping ambarsand when downloading delimited file
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 23 Aug 2022 02:46 PM

XQuery 's serializer default output method is XML therefore characters are escaped to make it well formed.

If your query outputs text, you need to declare the following option in the query prolog

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team

declare option ddtek:serialize "method=text";

let $httpResponse := ddtek:http-get($ItemURL,$request)
return $httpResponse/response/response-body/text()

Bruce Cantor

Subject: xquery escaping ambarsand when downloading delimited file
Author: Bruce Cantor
Date: 24 Aug 2022 06:24 AM

Very nice! Works like a charm. Thank you.

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