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xsl:character-map and xsl:attribute
Added by Anonymous over 16 years ago
Legacy ID: #4645842
Legacy Poster: Konrad Windszus (kwin)
Unfortunately I couldn't get xsl:character-map and xsl:attribute to work. I want to
embed SSI directives into an href attribute so that the following link should be
created: <a href="/content/test.html<!--#echo
var="testparam" -->">Testlink</a>
I know that this isn't valid HTML but since the HTML is preprocessed by an SSI-mod in
Apache valid HTML comes to the client. I found the following reference in the web:
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200505/post61420.html, but the proposed solution
doesn't work for me. This is what I have written in the xsl: <xsl:character-map
name="ssi-entities"> <!-- use this character for
starting comment --> <xsl:output-character
character=""
string="<!--" /> <xsl:output-character
character="" string="-->"
/> <xsl:output-character character=""
string=""" /> </xsl:character-map>
<xsl:output method="html"
media-type="text/html" encoding="UTF-8"
indent="no" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"
use-character-maps="ssi-entities" /> <xsl:template
match="/"> <html> <body>
<xsl:param name="href"
select="concat('/content/test.html', '#echo
var=test ')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$href" /> <!-- this does
work well --> <a
href="{$href}">testlink1</a> <!-- this
doesn't work, the following comes out: /content/test.html%EE%80%80#echo
var=%EE%80%82test%EE%80%82 %EE%80%81 --> <a> <xsl:attribute
name="href" select="$href" /> <!--
this doesn't work either --> Testlink2 </a> </body>
</html> How do I output some invalid attribute data within xsl:attribute.
The attribute disable-output-escaping isn't available within this element and
unfortunately xsl:character-map won't work either. Is there any other solution or have I
done anything wrong? By the way I use Saxon 8.8. Thanks in advance Konrad
Legacy ID: #4647169
Legacy Poster: Konrad Windszus (kwin)
I found the solution. XSLT2 introduces a new attributes
escape-uri-attributes="no". As default this attribute is set to
"yes" which results in URIs always being urlencoded. The effect from
above is gone, if that attribute is set to "no" (see
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200405/msg00157.html).
Legacy ID: #4647542
Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)
I think the rules changed later so that character maps would be applied after URI
escaping. Check with the current Saxon release 9.0
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