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Attribute values being url encoded in output

           Summary: Attribute values being url encoded in output
           Product: XalanJ2
           Version: 2.3Dx
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: org.apache.xalan.xsltc
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: egami@dimensional.com


The values of attributes of tags in the output (for instance, html tags) is 
being url encoded, or at least something similar.  For instance, [ is being 
replaced with %5b and ] with %5d.  I noticed this initially in an html input 
element where I had an onclick attribute with javascript in it, and it broke 
when I changed from using normal xslt to xsltc (both the same version of xalan).
These are not the only two characters that are replaced with incorrect url 
encodings, but also notice in the example fragment below that "'", "(" and ")" 
are not replaced.
    Another instance of this is that people have a habit of putting &#160; in 
stylesheets for &nbsp;.  Normally this will be output simply as &#160;, but 
xsltc present outputs this as %A0
    Note: This is not within an xsl:text node nor is it within <![CDATA[ ]]>.

Example:
...
  <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" onClick="document.forms['joe'].submit()" />
...
becomes
...
  <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" onClick="document.forms%5b'joe%5d.submit()">