if it is a webpage, then javascript to replace the characters is ok, but it
may be safer to do the replace on the server, before parsing.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Faron" <gfaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 3:00 PM
Subject: Re:  xslt replace special characters


> Alice,
>
>    This is going way off-topic, but...
>
>    You still haven't described the environment of the UI, so I'll assume
> it's an HTML page.  If so, use a simple JavaScript function to replace all
> occurrences of '&' with '&amp;' in your textfield value prior to the
form's
> submission.
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
>
> function mySubmit()
>    {
>    document.true_url.value = convert(document.url.value);
>    document.myform.action = "real form url here";
>    document.myform.submit();
>    // 'true_url' will have the "encoded" url value.
>    } // ends mySubmit(void)
>
> function convert(url)
>    {
>    var re = /&/g;
>    return url.replace(re, "&amp;");
>    } // ends convert(String)
>
> </script>
> ...
> <form name="myform" action="javascript:;" method="post">
>    <input type="text" name="url" value="" />
>    <input type="hidden" name="true_url" value="" />
>    <input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="mySubmit();" />
> </form>
>
> Greg
>
> At 12:36 PM 11/11/2002, you wrote:
> >Thanks Greg.  Right in the UI, we want the user to enter their URL. Their
> >URL will most likely have name/value pairs.  Is there an easier
> >way?  There is no otherway of filtering '&' before it gets processed in
> >the XSL?
> >
> >Alice
>
>
>
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