For ASCII characters the %HH escape code is simply the ASCII numeric value
as two hex digits. 

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce D'Arcus [mailto:bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 November 2004 03:23
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  doc() concat expression and whitespace error
> 
> 
> On Nov 15, 2004, at 9:40 PM, Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> > select='doc(concat("http://localhost:8080/exist/servlet/db/mods? 
> > _query=",
> > "/mods:modsCollection/mods:mods[@ID='", ., "']"))'/>
> 
> OK, that works; thanks!
> 
> > But since the apostrophe is actually a character appearing 
> in a URI, it
> > might be even better to escape it as %H27. Square brackets 
> in a URI  
> > should
> > also probably be %HH-escaped.
> 
> So what is the escape for ] and [?
> 
> BTW, to be able to [expletive deleted] in XML data via the doc() function 
> like this --  
> where I send a query to a database and get a result back for  
> transformation -- is really useful.
> 
> Bruce