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RE: [xsl] url encoding gets wrong with åöä?

2006-06-07 04:32:21

Thank you so much =) This is great!
Finally it works using the two-argument form of java.net.URLEncoder.encode()

Thanks everyone who has helped me out =)
/Niklas

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: den 7 juni 2006 13:04
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] url encoding gets wrong with åöä?

This thread seems to have gone off at a complete tangent.

(a) There are any number of editors that handle iso-8859-1 on Windows, or at 
any rate cp-1252 which is a good enough approximation for present purposes.
This isn't the issue.

(b) Calling an extension function to do URL encoding is a perfectly reasonable 
thing to do if you want to achieve something that the standard XSLT-generated 
encoding doesn't do. However, the suggestion that the encoding used by the 
extension function depends on the encoding of the stylesheet containing the 
call to the extension function seems pretty implausible.

In fact, the one-argument form of java.net.URLEncoder.encode() uses the default 
encoding of the platform, and is deprecated for that reason. There is a 
two-argument form in which the second argument is the encoding you want to use, 
for example "UTF-8" or "ISO-8859-1". The documentation of this method states 
clearly:

Note: The  World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation states that UTF-8 should be 
used. Not doing so may introduce incompatibilites.

None of this gets to the root of the problem, which is why percent-encoding the 
URL using UTF-8 encoding, as specified in all the standards, isn't working in 
your case. In general, it's a good idea to understand a problem before you 
start groping around in a blind search for a workaround.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: Abel Braaksma Online [mailto:abel(_dot_)online(_at_)xs4all(_dot_)nl]
Sent: 07 June 2006 11:47
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] url encoding gets wrong with åöä?

Hi Niklas,

Eclipse is free: www.eclipse.org. It is a development environment and
it can help you with developing XML, XSLT and programming (if you'd
need it). You can find any nice text editor in this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors. Decide which you
want based on it's capability of viewing a text-only document in
different encodings.

As a matter of fact, you can judge the encoding of your document by
loading into Internet Explorer (as a .txt file) and choose some
different encodings from the View --> Encoding menu. A handy shortcut
I often find myself using when I have to find out what encoding /
language a text is in (I do business with some Baltic states, have a
different character map than your Latin-1).

Cheers,
Abel

Niklas Holmberg wrote:

I don't have eclipse. Anybody know a good editor (for
windows) that can save correct ISO-8859-1 documents?





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