Re: [xsl] url encoding of ampersands

[Sivan Mozes <sivan at slip dot net>]

> This won't work because there is no ampersand in your *source tree* (which
> was *derived* from your original XML). é in your XML is resolved by
> the XML parser into a single LATIN SMALL E WITH ACUTE character long before
> the XSLT processor sees it. Likewise, your output will be *derived* from
> the result tree you construct, hence the automatic conversion of the
> character in question into é or é by the XSLT processor's
> result tree serializer, just as it would convert an ampersand into &.

Question: if the xslt processor was passed this character from the xml
parser, how is it selected for conversion as opposed to other characters, by
range?

Shouldn't there be a way to be more specific in HTML output mode in regards
to ampersand handling? (using xerces/xalan).

I eventually wrapped all my entities in CDATA so I can later on encode the
ampersands, and did another assignment pass w/ disable-output-escaping to
parse these entities for displaying link content.

Although it works, I don't like the idea of introducing an exception into
the xml itself, which is being handled by non-techies. Only for specific
elements CDATA needs to be used for entities while everywhere else, entities
are handled in a standard manner. I don't think this can be specified in the
DTD.

Thanks for your illuminating comments.

Sivan
     




 
> <xsl:variable name="anchor" select="concat(substring-before(.,'&#233;'),
> '%C3%A9',substring-after(.,'&#233;'))"/>
> 
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