Problem in XSLT with "//" in attribute value

kaps77 · November 6th, 2007, 10:03 AM

Hi,
Am converting HTML to XML using XSLT. The html contains custom nodes with attribute value as:

Code:

<custom attr1="/////wAFAAAAAQAAAAAAAABqAAU" />

When I perform XSLT over this, the attribute value becomes
"Extended latin set BExtended latin set B/wAFAAAAAQAAAAAAAABqAAU="

Why XALAN is converting attribute value starting with "/////"?
How can I prevent this from happening?
Thanks,
Kapil

mhkay · November 6th, 2007, 10:08 AM

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I would think that Xalan is doing whatever your stylesheet asked it to do - so we need to see what your stylesheet asked it to do.

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

kaps77 · November 6th, 2007, 10:25 AM

The html is of the form:

Code:

<html>
    <div attr="/////wAFAAAAAQAAAAAAAABqAAU=">
    </div>
</html>

The XSL is:

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/xslt/java">
    <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" />
    <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:template match="div">
        <xsl:value-of select="./@attr"></xsl:value-of>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks,
Kapil

kaps77 · November 6th, 2007, 10:57 AM

Sorry Michael. I figured out the error. It was a bug in my code.
Thanks anyway.
Regards,
Kapil