HTML-Output encoding URL

[Holger Flörke <fl...@doctronic.de>]

Choosing HTML output the content of the "href" attribute in the "a" element 
should be encoded by the XSLT-Processor. The brackets "[" and "]" should be 
enconded as mentioned in the rfc 2396. Xalan-C does not do this job. Ok I 
am familiar with encoding theese characters on my own with "%5B" and "%5D" 
but xalan-c will escape the percent sign and produces "%255B" and "%255D". 
He does this masquerading only for the brackets and not for any other 
character coded by hand. Am I wrong, or is Xalan-C wrong? How to work 
around the problem resulting in a correct encoded URL? I have attached a 
sample stylesheet and the result with Xalan-C++ 1.1 on Win32. tia 
HolgeR     unwise = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`" Data 
corresponding to excluded characters must be escaped in order to be 
properly represented within a URI. 
-->        http://foo.org/me?link=//*%5B%40id=%275%27%5D 
http://foo.org/me?link=//*[@id='5']      Result: -------

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xsl ques - is a value contained in a node of elements?

[chris markiewicz <cm...@commnav.com>]

hello.

a little background...i am passing back workflow objects and a list of
workflow-person associations (for a given person).

example:

<workflow>
<wfid>5</wfid>
...
</workflow>
...

and

<wfperassoc><wfid>5</wfid><perid>100</perid></wfperassoc>
<wfperassoc><wfid>6</wfid><perid>100</perid></wfperassoc>
...

when i get to a workflow (id=5), i want to see if that person (id = 100) is
associated.  is there any function that handles this sort of thing?

thanks
chris

Re: HTML-Output encoding URL

[Holger =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fl�rke?= <fl...@doctronic.de>]

Sorry for this badly formatted email :^( I found the bug on my own.

I found a bug in Xalan-C++ 1.1. The FormatterToHTML class quotes some 
characters double in writeAttrURI. I have heard about a bug-tracking system 
for xalan and found the one at "http://nagoya.betaversion.org/bugzilla/" Is 
it the right place? The new XalanC-Version (1.1) is not entered, so I will 
use this forum to place the bug-report

Chosing HTML-Output causes the Xalan to quote illigal characters in an 
"href" attribute of an element "a". If there are quoted characters in it, 
the leading percent sign may be quoted. (%5D -> %255D)

file:   FormatterToHTML.cpp
class:  FormatterToHTML
method: writeAttrURI
line  : 963-966

if (i + 2 < len &&
   XalanXMLChar::isDigit(string[i + 1]) == true &&
   XalanXMLChar::isDigit(string[i + 2]) == true)
{
   accumContent(ch);
}

The test is on not quoting double on quoted chars. Because the quoting is 
done with hex (allowing 'a..f' and 'A..F'), there could be characters to.

HolgeR

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email floerke@doctronic.de          information publishing + retrieval
phone +49 (0) 2222 9292 90          http://www.doctronic.de
fax   +49 (0) 2222 9292 99