Passing xsl variable in hyperlink querystring

b.preetam · November 12th, 2009, 08:00 PM

Hi,
I am coding in xsl which will be later transformed to html
I need to pass more than one xsl variable values in hyperlink, i am facing issues while seperating the two variable names with '&'
i tried using & and &, in both case i get & in between of two variables in source view after transforming to html.

code for hyperlink-
<xsl:attribute name='href'>www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=<xsl:value-of select="pass1"/>&p2=<xsl:value-of select="pass2"/></xsl:attribute>
www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=<xsl:value-of select="pass1"/>&p2=<xsl:value-of select="pass2"/>
</a>

is there any way to get rid of & in url? Thanks in advance.

Regds,
PB

mhkay · November 12th, 2009, 08:10 PM

An ampersand in any XML document (including a stylesheet) must be escaped as

Code:

&amp;

to make it valid XML.

The HTML serializer will also output

Code:

&amp;

in the generated HTML. This is required by the HTML specification. It's common for people writing HTML by hand to ignore this rule, and HTML browsers are very forgiving, but the correct form is to escape it, and every browser will accept it in that form.

b.preetam · November 12th, 2009, 09:55 PM

Micheal,
yes, i followed that. but i dont want & be part of a re-directing url. any suggestions to handle this?

Code:

<xsl:attribute name='href'>www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=<xsl:value-of select="pass1"/>&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="pass2"/></xsl:attribute>
www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=<xsl:value-of select="pass1"/>&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="pass2"/>

mhkay · November 13th, 2009, 06:28 AM

Sorry, I don't understand you requirement. Please explain what output you want. Use the forum [ code ] tags to avoid your code being corrupted by the forum software.

b.preetam · November 13th, 2009, 10:28 AM

i am getting output as below

Code:

<a href="http://www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=12&amp;p2=14">http://www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=12&amp;p2=14</a>

presence of & in URL redirects to incorrect link

for the coding in XSL as

Code:

xsl:attribute name='href'>www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=<xsl:value-of select="pass1"/>&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="pass2"/></xsl:attribute>
www.testurl.com/sg/show.aspx?p1=<xsl:value-of select="pass1"/>&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="pass2"/>

mhkay · November 13th, 2009, 10:42 AM

We're way off topic for XSLT by now. But every browser I know of handles & a m p ; in a URL correctly, that is by treating it as a representation of an ampersand. I don't understand what you mean by saying it redirects to an incorrect link.