Re: [xml-dev] Problem: special characters replaced by different encoding inHREF

[nicolas.m@eurorscg.be]

whoops looks like i posted that twice,
sorry about that

nicolas.m@eurorscg.be

29/10/2003 09:18 AM

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Subject	[xml-dev] Problem: special characters replaced by different encoding in HREF

Hi 

This is my HTML end result: 

        <a href=""content_recherche2.asp?p00=S%C3%A9rieyx,"
Herv%C3%A9">Sérieyx, Hervé</a> 

As you can see I am using special (french in this case) characters. For
some reason the character "é"  or "%E9" is replaced
by "%C3%A9". This is the XSL code: 

        <xsl:for-each select="contributor">
                <xsl:variable
name="contributor_name" select="@name"/>  
      
                <a href=""content_recherche2.asp?p00={$contributor_name}"><xsl:value-of"
select="$contributor_name"/></a> <br />  
      
        </xsl:for-each>      
                     
                     
      

The encoding is right when it is simply printed on screen but different
when used in the HREF tag. I'm assuming special characters are forbidden
in URL's and therefor replaced by unicode (?) characters. However I have
no idea how to revert them to their original encoding. 

The header in my XSL is 

        <xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>

I've tried setting it to UTF-8 but that didn't change anything. The header
in the XML is 

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"
standalone="no" ?> 


Thanks in advance, 
Nicolas