RE: [xsl] XSL, Escaping, undocumented?

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> XSL will try to retrieve a value from the URL: 
> www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&applysummertime=no
>  - which, of course, is invalid to ASP. ASP is not supposed 
> to convert the URL. The browser is the only device that 
> converts content, that is, XML, HTML etc.
> 
> The question is, more directly: How do I put a & in an URL, 
> that I can pass to the document() function.

When you write & in the URL in your stylesheet, it is converted by
the XML parser to "&", so the URL that is passed to the document
function is indeed 

 www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&applysummertime=no

I can't see why this isn't working.

Michael Kay


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