I can't reproduce this. Using Saxon 6.5.2, and the template:

<form>
<xsl:attribute name="action" saxon:disable-output-escaping="yes"
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon">
  <xsl:text>&lt;&#37;&#61;request.getRequestURI()&#37;&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
</form>

with the HTML output method generates

<form action="<%=request.getRequestURI()%>"></form>

What release are you using? (use the -t option to find out)

I can't see how you got a %25 in the output. Firstly,
saxon:disable-output-escaping prevents URI escaping as well as XML
escaping. Secondly, even when URI escaping happens, Saxon never escapes
% characters - only non-ASCII characters, as dictated by the spec.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Ricardo Castillo
> Sent: 31 March 2003 23:48
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  How do you set the action attribute for an 
> HTML form using XSLT?
> 
> 
> Hi.  I'm trying to transform XML into an HTML/JSP page.
> I've followed the suggestion at 
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N1553.html#> d1670e229
> 
> 
> using:
> 
> <xsl:attribute name="action" 
> saxon:disable-output-escaping="yes" 
> xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon">
>   <xsl:text>&lt;&#37;&#61;request.getRequestURI()&#37;&gt;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:attribute>
> 
> and have tried mine:
> 
> <xsl:attribute name="action">
>   <xsl:text 
> disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;&#37;&#61;request.getRequest
> URI()&#37;&gt;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:attribute>
> 
> but neither seem to work for the action attribute of the
> HTML form tag.  My way and the suggestion seem to work fine 
> with say the input tag.  I've tried all sorts of variations, 
> but I just can't get it to work.
> 
> This is what I get:
> 
>   <form method="get" action="<%25=request.getRequestURI()%25>">
> 
> And of course I'd like:
> 
>   <form method="get" action="<%=request.getRequestURI()%>">
> 
> What am I missing or is this truely a bug?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ricardo J. Castillo
> roadster9@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> 
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