Hi Greg...
I was looking into the '&' problem somemore. What if I used CDATA in my XML
file so when its trying to parse it will ignore those special characters. I
think this might work. Any ideas on this possible solution?
ALice
From: Greg Faron <gfaron(_at_)integretechpub(_dot_)com>
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Subject: Re: [xsl] xslt replace special characters
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 11:48:11 -0700
Alice,
It sounds like your user interface is one where the user types in an URL
string. You could offer additional fields if they need to enter multiple
name/value pairs (the only reason for an ampersand to appear in an URL).
Then your xsl could construct the final URL, adding the '?' if any
name/value pairs exist, and then outputting them with your own '&' and
'=' characters placed between them.
Sample XML (constructed from text fields):
<userURL>
<baseURL>http://www.someplace.com/dir/page.htm</baseURL>
<pair>
<name>arg1</name>
<value>value1</value>
</pair>
<pair>
<name>arg2</name>
<value>value2</value>
</pair>
<pair>
<name>arg3</name>
<value>value3</value>
</pair>
</userURL>
Relevant XSL:
<xsl:template match="userURL">
<xsl:value-of select="baseURL"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="pair"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="pair">
<xsl:if test="position() = 1">
<xsl:text>?</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="name" />
<xsl:text>=</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="value" />
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">
<xsl:text>&</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Greg
At 08:20 PM 11/10/2002, you wrote:
so the user has to input & or &3038; if their url consisys of an '&'.
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