Re: Special characters turn out as garbage in xslt->html conversi on

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

Kay Michael wrote:
> I think the <a name=""> attribute should also be escaped this way even
> though its value is not a URI, this is a minor omission from the XSLT spec.

Why? Is it because a URI fragment might look like "#ma%C3%B1nana" and you
want there to be an anchor name that looks the same? That wouldn't work
because if you have <a name="ma%C3%B1nana">...</a>, you would have to use
a URI ending in "#ma%25C3%25B1nana" to link to it. The URI is decoded
before it is compared to the anchor name.. changing this would require a
change to the HTML spec, not just XSLT, no?

   - Mike
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