RE: special characters replaced in javascript url

Thanks for the help. I tried the last way (use attributes such as onClick
) and things work fine now. Here is the piece of code I used. Hope it will
help someone who got similar problems.

<xsl:element name='a'>
<xsl:attribute name='href'>#</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name='onClick'>
 <xsl:text>frLink('FRLink','</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="
$field"/><xsl:text>',&quot;</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="$thisTerm"/><xsl:text>&quot;)</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>

Instead of:

<a href="javascript:frLink('FRLink','{$field}',&quot;{$thisTerm}&quo
t;);"><xsl:copy-of select="."/></a>

Thanks a lot for your help.

Ming

> Non-ASCII characters cannot legally appear in a URI, which is why XSLT
> always applies %-escaping to them. Unfortunately browsers aren't always
> very
> compliant with the specs, and this is particularly the case with
> Javascript
> "URLs" which usually are not really URIs at all.
>
> In XSLT 2.0 you can suppress the automatic %-escaping of URI attributes
> (Saxon 6.5.x also has an extension to do it with 1.0). With other
> processors, the best rule is to keep the Javascript in your href
> attributes
> very simple, just invoking functions defined in a script section. Better
> still, don't use href at all, instead use attributes such as onClick which
> are not defined as URIs.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mingqiang Yu [mailto:myu(_at_)lanl(_dot_)gov]
> > Sent: 22 October 2005 05:59
> > To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> > Subject: [xsl] special characters replaced in javascript url
> >
> > I have a problem which was asked a while ago but I couldn't
> > find the final
> > answer to that question. So I'm sorry that I have to raise
> > this question
> > again.(http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200310/msg00841.html)
> >
> > I have a very similar problem in which, I have an xml record
> > passed to my
> > stylesheet which contains the following string:
> > Cr&eacute;mieu, V.
> > So, in order for the stylesheet to handle this special characters
> > correctly, I need to defined it in my dtd file(document.dtd)
> > like this:
> > <!ENTITY eacute  "&#233;" >
> > and include this dtd file in the xml file passed to the stylesheet:
> > <!DOCTYPE document  SYSTEM "document.dtd" >
> >
> > Then, the special characters are displayed correctly but when
> > I tried to
> > pass it as part of the url through javascript:
> > <a
> > href="javascript:frLink('FRLink','author',&quot;{$thisTerm}&quot;);">
> > in which the $thisTerm is the string Cr&eacute;mieu, V., the
> > same string
> > becomes "Cr%C3%A9mieu, V".
> >
> > I tried to use the solution introduced in the link above by doing
> > escape-javascript like this:
> > <xsl:template name="escape-javascript">
> >     <xsl:param name="string" />
> >     <xsl:choose>
> >         <xsl:when test='contains($string, "&#233;")'>
> >             <xsl:call-template name="escape-javascript">
> >                 <xsl:with-param name="string"
> > select='substring-before($string, "&#233;")' />
> >             </xsl:call-template>
> >             <xsl:text>&amp;eacute;</xsl:text>
> >             <xsl:call-template name="escape-javascript">
> >                 <xsl:with-param name="string"
> > select='substring-after($string, "&#233;")' />
> >             </xsl:call-template>
> >         </xsl:when>
> >         <!-- test for other special characters or entities here -->
> >         <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$string"
> > /></xsl:otherwise>
> >     </xsl:choose>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > It seems to work for this case. But I have too many special characters
> > that I cannot do the escape for every special characters.
> >
> > Can you help to find a better solution to solve this problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Ming
> >
> >
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