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Re: Ampersand for URLs
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Ampersand for URLs
- From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin at mitretek dot org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:26:36 -0400
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I always understood that the url string was to be unescaped before any
further processing was done on it. If so, the %26 would be restored to "&"
and so would still function as a separator. I have to admit that I didn't
try it, though.
Cheers,
Tom P
Robert Seber said
> I think that you've missed the point - the ampersand is required to
seperate
> out the parameters - not as part of the value of a parameter. You'd use
%26
> if you wanted to pass through an ampersand as a value, but not for
> delimiting the parameters.
>
> e.g.
>
> /pub.asp?meal=roast&pub=dog%20%26%20duck
>
> would be used to pass through parameters meal and pub with values "roast"
> and "dog & duck"
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