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RE: URL encoding
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 08:52:15 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] URL encoding
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> Is there a quick way to encode URLs in XSL?
>
> Ex: Convert
> http://myurl.com/document.html?param1=foo1¶m2=foo2 to
> http%3A%2F%2Fmyurl.com%2Fdocument.html%3Fparam1%3Dfoo1%26param
> 2%3Dfoo2
>
There isn't a built-in function to do it, though we're planning to add
one in XPath 2.0.
But more to the point, your encoding is wrong according to RFC 2396.
Special characters such as "/", "?", and ampersand should be %HH-encoded
only when they are used as ordinary characters, not when they are used
with their special meanings.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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