Larry,
xsl escapes href attributes when the output method is html. So to fix this
change the output method to xml or use onclick instead of href

Ciao Chris

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Larry Davis
>Sent: 31 May 2001 22:47
>To: David Specht; 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>Subject:  Wrong Characters Returned from Javascript Function
>
>
>I have a JavaScript function that cleans apostrophes and quotation marks
>from text as it is written as a parameter into another JavaScript function
>on an html page.  The JavaScript function returns different symbols for the
>copyright and trademark symbols.  I tried commenting out all the processes
>inside escapeApos() function.  Even when I return the exact same
>string, the
>characters are altered. There is an example of the output below.
>
>We are using MSXML3 for transformation.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks, Larry
>
>
>XSL Code:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:user="user"
>exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl user">
>	<xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" omit-xml-declaration="yes"
>indent="no" media-type="text/html" encoding="UTF-16"/>
>	<msxsl:script language="JavaScript" implements-prefix="user">
>			<![CDATA[function escapeApos(str_in) {
>							var char1 = /'/gi;
>//Chr(39)
>							var char2 = /"/gi;
>//Chr(34)
>							str_in =
>str_in.replace(char1, "\\'");
>							str_in =
>str_in.replace(char2, "\\'");
>							return str_in;
>			}]]>
></msxsl:script>
>	<xsl:template match="/Items">
>		<xsl:apply-templates select="Item"/>
>	</xsl:template>
>	<xsl:template match="Item">
>		<P/>
>		<a>
>			<!--Write variables into html stream for javasccript
>function -->
>			<xsl:attribute
>name="href">javascript:editItem(<xsl:value-of select="ItemID"/>,
>'<xsl:value-of select="user:escapeApos(string(ItemShortDesc))"/> ')
></xsl:attribute>Edit This Item</a>
>	</xsl:template>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>XML Example:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="AposTest.xsl"?>
><Items>
>	<Item>
>		<ItemID>123</ItemID>
>		<ItemShortDesc>Grimm's Fairy Tales ®</ItemShortDesc>
>	</Item>
>	<Item>
>		<ItemID>123</ItemID>
>		<ItemShortDesc>Bob's Fairy Tales ®</ItemShortDesc>
>	</Item>
>	<Item>
>		<ItemID>123</ItemID>
>		<ItemShortDesc>Roger's Fairy Tales ®</ItemShortDesc>
>	</Item>
></Items>
>
>XSL Returns:
><P></P>
><a href="javascript:editItem(123, 'Grimm\'s Fairy Tales %C2%AE ') ">Edit
>This Item</a>
><P></P>
><a href="javascript:editItem(123, 'Bob\'s Fairy Tales %C2%AE ') ">Edit This
>Item</a>
><P></P>
><a href="javascript:editItem(123, 'Roger\'s Fairy Tales %C2%AE ') ">Edit
>This Item</a>
>
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