Re: [exslt] output methods (Was: Re: [xsl] Twig::, Xalan, and Character Escaping)

Subject: Re: [exslt] output methods (Was: Re: [xsl] Twig::, Xalan, and Character Escaping)
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:09:03 -0700 (MST)
Francis Norton wrote:
> Aha! I'd been assuming the solution was to provide url-encode() and
> url-decode() methods. 

Don't give up yet. Such functions would be more useful than the automatic
URL-encoding mandated by XSLT's html output method, IMHO.

The URL-encoding in the html output method is only for non-ASCII characters
that make their way into an attribute value that one knows (because HTML's
DTDs explicitly say so) is supposed to be a URI reference. It is hardly a
general-purpose URL-encoder, despite some poor implementations that might
be blindly URL-encoding the entire attribute value.

I can see how it would be appropriate to have the same automatic
functionality in an XHTML output method, though, for consistency.

   - Mike
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