Re: [xsl] Decoding %-escaped chars in URI

[Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> No there's no such function.

  That's sad, but at least
I'm reassured about my spec searching
skills ;-)

> As a matter of interest,
what's the use case?

  I am writing a WebDAV client in XSLT, using the EXPath
HTTP
client.  In the result, the paths are encoded (for instance if you
ask
the list of resources in a collection, aka the files in a
directory).  See (in
particular the example in 8.3.1):
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-8.3

  So to display the resource
name to a human, I should decode it
first.

> (b) difficulty in the detail of
specifying it: what do you do
> for example with percent signs that aren't
followed by two hex
> digits.

  Yes.  I've just written such a function in
plain XSLT, and I
generate an error in that case.  If I am right (but I did
not
check) the input is not a valid lexical URI if this is the case
(for
instance "http://.../a%2";).

  Regards,

-- 
Florent Georges
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