Hey Matthew,
If you set the output to XML and then add omit-xml-declaration="yes" (this
ensures that the <?xml version="1.0"?> is not included in the output) you
the you can take advantage of the fact that in xml <a href="..."> is seen as
nothing more than an element and attribute with an associated value and not
a URI.
So adding this element to your stylesheet:
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
Will solve the URI escaping issue but will require you to ensure that you
output HTML correctly, though well formed HTML it may be. This does create
possible issues with being backwards compatible with older browsers. Will
your clients be viewing this output in a current generation browser?
<M:D/>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Simoneau" <Matthew(_dot_)Simoneau(_at_)mathworks(_dot_)com>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: RE: [xsl] encoding shift_jis into an attribute
Thanks Josh and David for your replies. I understand a little more
about what's going on.
In the original XML-file, these characters are shift_jis encoded
Unicode. XSLT is helping me convert this file to HTML. As text on the
page, XSLT wants them to display properly and escapes them using their
numeric character references, "数学". In the context of the
href attribute, it wants them to be part of a valid URI and is URI
encoding them as "%E6%95%B0%E5%AD%A6".
What I want is to work around this feature and get the numeric character
reference representation within an href attribute. This may be a bad
idea for a general web page or general URI, but makes sense in my
application. If I change href to anything else, it leaves the numeric
character references, but then of course my links don't work. I found
references on the web that this is a feature of Saxon that can be turned
off, but I can't figure out how.
Does anyone have any ideas about how to attack this?
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