<xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="contains($full_url, '?')">
<xsl:value-of select="$full_url"/>&amp;WT.gmini=true&amp;WT.apsearch=<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$html_escaped_query"/><xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;WT.searchclick=product_image&q uot;&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$full_url"/>?WT.gmini=true&amp;WT.apsearch=<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="$html_escaped_query"/><xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;WT.searchclick=product_image&q uot;&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

Well, actually I know the problem is the ? in the second line because if I change that to some other text that appears in the full_url then it works fine. Why can't I search for a ? in a url? Or how do I do it properly?

Thanks.

Al Dugan
www.atomicpark.com

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Al Dugan
www.atomicpark.com

Nevermind...

%3F instead of the ? works

Al Dugan
www.atomicpark.com

I was going to say "What's wrong with this code is that it uses disable-output-escaping" - as that's often a symptom of poor XSLT programming. However, there's nothing wrong with the contains($x, '?') expression. Either your assumptions are wrong, and you're testing the wrong condition, or your processor has a bug. Given that you haven't actually provided any *evidence* that it's not working (you've only asserted the fact) my initial assumption would be that the error is in part of the code that you haven't shown us.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I know, I know.. I've been scolded here before for having ugly "disable-output-escaping" code... but this is not my fault, it's for the Google Mini search appliance and that is how all of their code is written... I'm simply working with what I've got.

Al Dugan
www.atomicpark.com