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RE: ampersands in URL as attribute value causing problems?
- From: "Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:58:16 +0200
- Subject: RE: [xsl] ampersands in URL as attribute value causing problems?
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> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Phillip
> Rhodes
> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:41 PM
> To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] ampersands in URL as attribute value causing problems?
>
>
> I am down in the dumps about this. Thanks for any help.
>
> I have an well formed xhml document.
> In the document, I have "img" elements that have a "src" attribute.
> The attribute value of the "src" attribute is a URL.
> The URL has ampersands in it. For it to be a valid XML document, all the
> ampersands are escaped as &
Correct.
> The URL's do not work properly if they have the ampersands escaped. They
> work fine if they are unescaped.
What do you mean by "they do not work"? They MUST work. Please give a more
detailed description. You can easily test this by hand-writing an HTML
document and opening it in a browser.
> http://test?x=x&x=1&x=2 works fine
> http://test?x=x&x=1&x=2 Does not work
>
> My question is, how can I represent a URL in xhtml without the ampersands
> being escaped and have it still be valid xml?
No.
> Should I consider running my xhtml document through a transformation that
> will unescape the ampersands?
No.
> As an aside, I am using JDOM. It is a library that facilitates building
> xml documents.
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