RE: Non English characters in attribute values

HTML specifies that URLs appearing in attribute values such as "href" should
be escaped this way. However, it is known that browsers don't always support
this when the URLs are interpreted client-side. For this reason XSLT 2.0
allows you to suppress this escaping with the xsl:output parameter
escape-uri-attributes="no".

Michael Kay

(apologies in advance if this goes out multiple times. My ISP thinks they
have cured the problem, but who knows?)

-----Original Message-----
From: David Sinclair [mailto:dsinclair(_at_)teleflex(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 20 September 2004 11:55
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Non English characters in attribute values

Hi,

I am having a problem with non-english characters and how 
they appear in 
attribute values as apposed to element content.   This is a 
simplified 
version of the code I having a problem with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<xsl:output method="html" version="4.01" indent="yes" 
encoding="UTF-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
       <body><xsl:apply-templates select="//values" /></body>
    </html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="values">
    <ul><xsl:apply-templates select="value" /></ul>   
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="value">
    <li>
        <xsl:element name="a">
            <xsl:attribute 
name="href">javascript:pushSelectionBackToOpener('<xsl:value-of 
select="."/>')</xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </xsl:element>
    </li>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is an example of the source document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<result>
    <values>
        <value>Larry</value>
        <value>Gisèle</value>
    </values>
</result>

The result of running this xsl on the source doc is as follows (note 
that the href attribute is different from the element content):
<html xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 
charset=iso-8859-1">
  
      <title></title>
   </head>
   <body></body>
   <ul>
      <li><a 
href="javascript:pushSelectionBackToOpener('Larry')">Larry</a></li>
      <li><a 
href="javascript:pushSelectionBackToOpener('Gis%C3%A8le')">Gis
&egrave;le</a></li>
   </ul>
</html>

The javascript function puts its parameter into an htm form 
field, and 
appears as "GisÃ¨le" instead of  "Gisèle".  Does anyone know 
how I can 
get the right value to apear in the attribute value?  I am 
using  Saxon 
8 BTW.

David Sinclair.

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